Research Guides: SHSU Common Reader 2017: The Good Food Revolution: About the Book

Welcome!

Here is a sampling of resources
for the 2017-18

SHSU Common Reader

Curriculum Infusion Guide

Activity & Discussion Ideas
for you & your classes
using The Good Food Revolution.

Curriculum Guide

Meet the Author

Will Allen is the author of The Good Food Revolution, winner of the MacArthur Genius Award, and CEO of Growing Power, a non-profit which focuses on education and activism for sustainable urban farming. Their goals include provide urban areas with healthy affordable food. Learn more about their activities at the Growing Power Website.

Meet the Book

In this book Will Allen describes to the reader the events in his own life as well as those in his family history that led him down the path of urban farming. He discusses the pitfalls of our current food system and how the urban farming revolution may solve its ills.

Front Cover of The Good Food Revolution by Will Allen showing him standing overlooking a field