He named his venture "Growing Power," and not only began feeding people in the city, but teaching people in his neighborhood, around the country, and around the world how to be urban farmers. He added hoophouses for more growing room, and vats of water to raise fish. 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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