Will Allen’s Growing Power gets a million from slaver Wal-Mart

By Rady Ananda

Don’t you just hate it when your heroes sell out? Urban farming revolutionary Will Allen just accepted a cool million from the Wal-Mart billionaires whose ill-gotten gains derive squarely from slave labor.

Very few store employees, and farm workers who supply the behemoth, are paid a living wage.  Meanwhile, the Walton family is worth $90 billion, according to Forbes’ calculations as of September 2010.

Will Allen and a million pounds of organic food on 3 acres

Using vertical space, Will Allen of Growing Power (based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) shows how 3,000 square feet of growing space is converted to 4,500 square feet.  On his total 3 acres, he says he produces a million pounds of organic food each year.  He also recycles the water used in greenhouses to raise mercury-free fish.