![]() Will devised ways to use every inch of space, growing food in the ground, and also in pots and baskets and buckets and boxes. He bought an inner-city lot that included six greenhouses, got friends to donate fruit and vegetable waste to create compost, added red wiggler worms and figured out-through trial and error, and with hands-on help from neighborhood kids-how to gradually transform the polluted soil to grow healthy food. But while helping a Belgian friend dig potatoes during his basketball days, he made a life-changing discovery: He "loved digging in the dirt." Living in Milwaukee after playing ball, Will noticed how few people, especially in poor neighborhoods, had access to fresh vegetables. ![]() "He planned to quit on planting, picking, pulling weeds, leave those Maryland fields for basketball or white-shirt work." It turns out he did both, playing professional basketball in Belgium, then getting "white-shirt" work in Wisconsin. ![]() ![]() As a child, Will Allen hated working in his family's garden. ![]()
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