{"id":229216,"date":"2010-01-26T01:30:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T06:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleglobaljustice.org\/?p=590"},"modified":"2010-01-26T01:30:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T06:30:37","slug":"growing-power%e2%80%99s-will-allen-coming-to-seattle-feb-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/229216","title":{"rendered":"Growing Power\u2019s Will Allen Coming to Seattle! Feb 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are growing food, thinking about food, interested in food justice or want to get started this year, check out this great event!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobaljustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WillAllen2010.pdf\">See here for the flyer.<br \/>\n<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\nUrban Agriculture: Food Justice For All<br \/>\n\u201cInside the Farmers Studio\u201d with Will Allen, CEO of Growing Power &amp; 2008 MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient<br \/>\nFeb 3rd 7-9pm @ Mercer Middle School Auditorium<br \/>\n1600 Colombian Way, Seattle, WA<\/p>\n<p>Will Allen is the founder and president of the Rainbow Farmer\u2019s Cooperative. One of the only African American farmers in the State of Wisconsin, Allen has struggled vigorously to alleviate the plight of the small family farmer. Will is also the CEO of Growing Power, a national not for profit organization supporting the development of urban community food systems. He has over fifty years experience in farming, marketing and distributing food and has shared this knowledge with youth, adults, community groups, immigrants, farmers, and consumers. Will Allen is known as an innovator and creator of food systems that are leading efforts in getting good food to all people worldwide. He believes that food is the cornerstone in building healthy communities and that we have a responsibility to pass on our knowledge to youth and adults about food for future sustainable food systems.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact:<\/p>\n<p>Edward B. Hill, MUP &#8216;10, APA<br \/>\nExecutive Director, Creatives4Community<br \/>\n1810 East Yesler Way<br \/>\nSeattle, WA 98122-5748<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creatives4community.org\">www.creatives4community.org<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groundupproject.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/groundupproject.blogspot.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n206.508.1260<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are growing food, thinking about food, interested in food justice or want to get started this year, check out this great event!\u00a0See here for the flyer. \u00a0 Urban Agriculture: Food Justice For All \u201cInside the Farmers Studio\u201d with Will Allen, CEO of Growing Power &amp; 2008 MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient Feb 3rd 7-9pm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}