User:Adjoajo/Nuri

k. Rashid Nuri is an urban agriculturist, farmer, community developer, author, and the founder of Truly Living Well. He has managed agricultural operations throughout the United States, and in 35 countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Biography
He has been involved with food production and farming for over fifty years. Nuri got involved in urban agriculture in 1968. When he started growing a small crop of corn in a backyard in San Diego, California. He helped to start some of the first organic community gardens in San Diego.

Career
In 1990s - Nuri was appointed deputy administrator of the Farm Service Agency and Foreign Agricultural Services for the USDA. He worked for the Clinton administration for four years in Washington, D.C.

In 2006 - He co-founded the non-profit Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture along with Eugene Cooke and Ernest Dunkle in Atlanta, Georgia. The TLW provides agriculture training, nutrition, education and job creation.

Nuri is the author of Growing Out Loud Journey of a Food Revolutionary.

Quotes
“Building sustainable communities begins with a focus on infrastructure, equity and self-sufficiency. Our work supports pioneers and change-makers with effective tools and techniques to build powerful communities.” — K. RASHID NURI