Growing Power (Organization)
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- Affiliation Address: 5500 W. Silver Spring Drive , Milwaukee , WI 53218
- Affiliation Address:
- City: Milwaukee
- State: WI
- Post Code: 53218
- Email: [email protected]
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Urban agriculture
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Sources
found: Allen, Will. The good food revolution, 2012:page xiii (Growing Power) pages 17, 108-112, 132-133 (Will Allen purchased greenhouses in Milwaukee and founded Will's Roadside Market in 1993; Allen founded non-profit Farm-City Link in 1995; in 1998, Hope Finkelstein founded Growing Power in Madison, Wisconsin, as a cooperative of community gardens; in 1999, Growing Power merged with Farm-City Link, retaining the Growing Power name and the Milwaukee greenhouse location, with Finkelstein and Allen as co-directors)
found: Growing Power web site, March 5, 2014(Growing Power, Inc.; national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities; implements this mission by providing hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance through the development of Community Food Systems that help people grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner; headquarters and urban farm: 5500 W. Silver Spring Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53218; [email protected])
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Change Notes
2014-03-14: new
2014-03-15: revised
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