Will Allen – From Malthus to Monsanto

200 years of Silver Bullet Schemes to Solve Hunger and Sell Products

Will Allen grew up on a small fair in southern California and served in the Marine Corps between the Korean and Vietnam wars.  He received a PhD in Anthropology (focused on Peruvian tropical forest agriculture) and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, before being fired and sentenced to a year in jail for civilrights and antiwar activism. He returned to faming and farm labor full-time in 1972 and has been farming organically ever since in Oregon, California and Vermont, where he now co-manages Cedar Circle Farm.  He founded the Sustainable Cotton Project in 1991 and served as its executive director for thirteen years. He is currently a co-chair of Farms Not Arms, is a policy advisory board member of the Organic Consumers Association, and serves on the board of Rural Vermont..

Last year Will came to the GWC and  read from his new book  “The War on Bugs.”  He continues  his extensive research into Industrial agriculture and will share with you his finding in this upcoming talk.

This  event is co-sponsored by the Cape Ann Farmers Market & Backyard Growers.