City Farmer : : Adventures in Urban Food Growing
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1. Sowing the city, reaping the benefits -- 2. Embracing a food-growing ethic -- 3. Productive possibility -- 4. Harvesting space -- 5. Rethinking convention: finding soil and sites -- 6. Lessons of care: food gardens as nurturing hubs -- 7. People power: growing together in community gardens --8. Rogues on a mission: guerrilla gardening and foraging -- 9. What the cluck?: backyard chickens -- 10. The edible city.
Chronicles the new ways that urban dwellers across North America are reimagining cities as places of food production, from homeowners planting their front yards with vegetables to guerrilla gardeners scattering seeds in neglected urban corners.
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PUBLISHED
Berkeley : Greystone Books, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 250 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781553655190
1553655192
SUBJECTS
Urban agriculture.