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The good food revolution : growing healthy food, people, and communities

Title
The good food revolution : growing healthy food, people, and communities / Will Allen with Charles Wilson.
Author
Allen, Will, 1949-
Publication
  • New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2013.
  • ©2012

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Additional Authors
Wilson, Charles, 1974-
Description
xiv, 283 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
Describes the author's early experiences as a sharecropper's son and a KFC executive before building a preeminent urban farm to feed, educate, and employ thousands of at-risk youths.
Subject
  • Urban agriculture > Social aspects
  • Food supply > Social aspects
  • African Americans > Social aspects
  • Alternative agriculture
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Community gardens
  • Urban agriculture
  • Social aspects
  • Food supply
  • African Americans
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword by Eric Schlosser -- Escape -- Return -- Promises -- Trial by fire -- Black flight -- Beginning -- A snorting terror of rippling muscle -- Guess who's coming to dinner -- Back to earth -- Black gold -- A little hope, a lot of will -- Homecomings -- Overnight success -- New frontiers -- The dream.
Call Number
Sc D 23-722
ISBN
  • 9781592407606
  • 1592407609
  • 9781592407101
  • 1592407102
OCLC
934811032
Author
Allen, Will, 1949- author.
Title
The good food revolution : growing healthy food, people, and communities / Will Allen with Charles Wilson.
Publisher
New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2013.
Copyright Date
©2012
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Original Version
Originally published: Hardcover edition. New York : Gotham Books, 2012.
Local Note
NOT HANDLED ON AP-RECENT REPRINT.
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Wilson, Charles, 1974- author.
Research Call Number
Sc D 23-722
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