Bibliograph

City farmer, adventures in urban food growing, Lorraine Johnson

Type

Label

City farmer, adventures in urban food growing, Lorraine Johnson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

City farmer

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

653013703

Responsibility statement

Lorraine Johnson

Sub title

adventures in urban food growing

Summary

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

Table Of 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

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