City farmer

City farmer

by Johnson, Lorraine

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"Celebrates the 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, gardening guru Lorraine Johnson chronicles the increasing popularity of innovative urban food growing"--Back cover.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :City farmer / Lorraine Johnson.

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"Celebrates the 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, gardening guru Lorraine Johnson chronicles the increasing popularity of innovative urban food growing"--Back cover.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2011.
  • Edition:1st U.S. ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Greystone Books
  • Place of Publication:Vancouver, Canada
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2011.

Notes

"Adventures in urban food growing"--Cover.

Originally published : 2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:250 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781553655190, 1553655192
  • oclc:ocn973682730
  • LC Classification:S494.5.U72
  • Dewey Decimal:630.9173/2

Table of Contents

Bringing dinner home -- Sowing the city, reaping the benefits -- Embracing a food-growing ethic -- Productive possibility -- Harvesting space -- Rethinking convention : finding soil and sites -- Lessons of care : food gardens as nurturing hubs -- People power : growing together in community gardens -- Rogues on a mission : guerrilla gardening and foraging -- What the cluck? : backyard chickens -- The edible city -- Adventures in possibility -- Resources. A selected list of urban farms and edible demonstration gardens ; A selected list of urban agriculture and food-related organizations.

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Subjects

Agriculture urbaine Urban agriculture

Writers

Johnson, Lorraine

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