RIVERSIDE, CA--(Marketwired - March 13, 2017) - Will Allen, America's foremost urban farmer who turned an abandoned plant nursery in Milwaukee into the center of an urban farming and sustainable food ...

Urban farmer Will Allen, a MacArthur fellow, has a passion for self-sustainable farming. As the world is encouraged to become more environmentally conscious, urban farmer Will Allen is ...

Since then, Allen has taken that passion and turned it into a lifestyle. He is currently the director of urban farming project “Growing Power” west of Milwaukee, and he discusses with Brooke ...

“I know how to make money growing food,” Allen asserts. But he’s also got ... All of which perhaps explains why other urban farmers have not yet replicated Growing Power’s scale or its ...

But that’s changing, thanks to urban farming pioneers ... This creativity won Allen a MacArthur Genius grant in 2008, making him only the second working farmer to ever win the award, and landed ...

Last night on the Colbert Report, Will Allen (who used to be a pro basketball player, then a marketing exec, and is now a serious urban farmer) stopped by to talk about his new book, The Good Food ...

When Will Allen — the former University of Miami basketball star turned celebrity urban farmer — began promoting his vision of sustainable farming methods in low-income neighborhoods ...