City farmer : adventures in urban food growing
Johnson, Lorraine, 1960-2010
Book
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.
Main title:
City farmer : adventures in urban food growing / Lorraine Johnson.
Author:
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Imprint:
Vancouver : Greystone Books, 2010.
Collation:
250 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
97815536551901553655192
Dewey class:
630.91732630.9173
LC class:
S494.5 U72
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
58496
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Home and Lifestyle | HOME 630.9173 JOHN | Available |