Will Allen - The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities

Praise for The Good Food Revolution

Featured on CBS Evening News, CNN, Fox News, The Colbert Report, Tavis Smiley, and NPRs To the Best of Our Knowledgeand The Splendid Table

Goodreads Choice finalist for best food book of the year

2013 NAACP Image Awards nominee for autobiography / biography

[Allens] book could have been another look at the problems of the industrial food system, the lack of healthful food in many poor communities, and ideas to reverse course. And it is that, but its also told through the painful but important lens of the African-American experience.

Allen gives readers the personal, moving account of a man whose family became part of the last centurys great migration of African-Americans out of the South. Of a man who traded a successfuland not too difficultlife in the corporate world for the economic uncertainties and the nonstop labor of a small farmer.

Los Angeles Times

Will Allen, the CEO of Growing Power, is teaching us how to feed a nationnaturally. His story is not only compelling but a treatise on how our country supplies food and how the absence of a grocery store in your hood is no excuse for not finding a way to feed your family good food.

Ebony

[A] well-written, fascinating, and truly inspiring memoir about hope and resilience through agriculture.

Serious Eats

Will Allens life proves that success often grows from failure.

The Bay State Banner

Mr. Allen has written both a touching autobiography and a compelling history of this countrys dynamic food landscape.

Handpicked Nation

What [Will] Allen does with a small plot of land and a lot of determination is nothing short of inspiring.A moving story of one mans success in producing healthy food for those who need it the most.

Kirkus Reviews

From the plots of his Milwaukee urban farm to low-income communities across America, Will Allen has shown us a new type of heroism. Through The Good Food Revolution, Allen recounts his effort to reclaim his familys heritage and, in doing so, confronts lingering disparities in racial and economic justice. As the champion of a new and promising movement, Allen is skillfully leading Americans to face one of our greatest domestic issuesour health.

President William Jefferson Clinton

Far more than a book about food, The Good Food Revolution captivates your heart and mind with the sheer passion of compelling and righteous innovation. Wow!

Joel Salatin, author and farmer at Polyface, Inc.

Will Allen is a hero and an inspiration to urban farmers everywhere. Now, with The Good Food Revolution, we learn how Allen rediscovered the power of agriculture and, in doing so, transformed a city, its community, and eventually the worldwith the help of millions of red wiggler worms. Told with grace and utter honesty, I found myself cheering for Allen and his organization, Growing Power.

Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City and The Essential Urban Farmer

Will Allens remarkable story, told with eloquence and compassion, conveys the universal value of social justice and real food.

Alice Waters

After retiring from professional basketball and executive positions at KFC and Procter&Gamble, Will Allen became CEO of Growing Power. He lives in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

Charles Wilson is a journalist as well as the coauthor with Eric Schlosser of the #1 New York Times bestselling childrens book Chew On This: Everything You Dont Want to Know About Fast Food.