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Cook: Green side up

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photo David Cook

“It can be done. We just have to have the will to do it.”

– Will Allen

Before he became one of the most important men in America, Will Allen was driving through a neglected Milwaukee street, crumbs from donuts and fried chicken scattered across his car, on his way to another joyless day in a job he didn’t like.

Then he saw a row of greenhouses. For sale.

It was like a north star.