City farmer
Subtitle: adventures in urban food growing
By: Lorraine Johnson
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Vancouver; Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781553655190; 9781553656289
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Urban agriculture; Food supply
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bringing dinner home; title: Sowing the city, reaping the benefits; title: Embracing a food-growing ethic; title: Productive possibility; title: Harvesting space; title: Rethinking convention : finding soil and sites; title: Lessons of care : food gardens as nurturing hubs; title: People power : growing together in community gardens; title: Rogues on a mission : guerrilla gardening and foraging; title: What the cluck? : backyard chickens; title: The edible city; title: Adventures in possibility; title: Resources. A selected list of urban farms and edible demonstration gardens ; A selected list of urban agriculture and food-related organizations.