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City Farmer : Adventures in Urban Food Growing

ISBN: 9781553655190 | 1553655192
Edition: Original
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: Greystone Books
Pub. Date: 2/1/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
City Farmercelebrates 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 guerilla gardeners scattering seeds in neglected urban corners, gardening guru Lorraine Johnson chronicles the increasing popularity of innovative urban food growing.
Introduction: Bringing Dinner Homep. 1
Sowing the City, Reaping the Benefitsp. 9
Embracing a Food-growing Ethicp. 31
Productive Possibilityp. 47
Harvesting Spacep. 67
Rethinking Convention: Finding Soil and Sitesp. 91
Lessons of Care: Food Gardens as Nurturing Hubsp. 119
People Power: Growing Together in Community Gardensp. 131
... MOREp. 155
What the Cluck?: Backyard Chickensp. 179
The Edible Cityp. 203
Epilogue: Adventures in Possibilityp. 215
Resources
A Selected List of Urban Farms and Edible Demonstration Gardensp. 221
A Selected List of Urban Agriculture and Food-related Organizationsp. 229
A Selected List of Booksp. 233
Acknowledgmentsp. 243
Indexp. 245
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Lorraine Johnson is the author of eight previous books, including Grow Wild!, 100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants for Canadian Gardens, and Tending the Earth: A Gardener’s Manifesto. Her writing has appeared in such publications as On Nature, Chatelaine, and the Globe and Mail, and she is a frequent speaker at conferences and garden shows in the United States and Canada.


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