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Jun 6, 2011

Yep We're #1! Wisconsin Farmer Grows 1 Million Pounds of Food on Three Acres.

Will Allen is a Wisconsin farmer who oversees Growing Power’s aquaponics farm in Milwaukee that produces one million pounds of food on just three acres of land. Allen, the son of a sharecropper, former professional basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader, and now farmer, explains in a YouTube video how Growing Power achieves an abundance in food output in such a small space, using principles of aquaponics, vertical growing, fish production, composting and integrated farming techniques to achieve year around food production – the largest year around food production operation in the State of Wisconsin. 

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