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Erika Allen
Fellow, Community Food Systems
Food & Agriculture, Social Justice
Erika Allen is Chicago Projects Manager for Growing Power, a nationally acclaimed non-profit organization and land trust providing equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe, and affordable food, especially in disadvantaged communities. She helps food producers of limited resources strengthen their farm businesses and work in partnerships to create healthy and diverse food options in inner city and rural communities.
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Our Food...Our Growing Power
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Post carbon Fellow Erika Allen, Chicago Projects Manager for Growing Power, a nationally acclaimed non-profit and land trust that provides equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe, and affordable food, joins ZOOM’D to explore the concept of “urban farming.” The goal is to convert vacant plots of land in underused parts of our cities into productive farms. As our population grows exponentially, our resources for growing food—including oil (for fuel), gas (for fertilizer), fresh water, and topsoil—are rapidly depleting around the world. How do we grow food-resilient communities, and how do we do this in disadvantaged communities? This conversation with Erika points to the potential at hand, with Chicago’s urban farming community as a model for the rest of the nation and world to consider. This episode begins a ZOOM’D focus on food and resilience, to be continued with a variety of topics over coming months.
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Allen's Urban Farms in Washington Times
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Post Carbon Fellow Erika Allen's Growing Power urban farming project was the one of the projects featured in this piece on urban farming. From the article: Chicago's urban farming community, driven by pioneers such as … >>
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