City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food GrowingCity Farmer celebrates 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. |
Contents
Two Embracing a FoodGrowing Ethic
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Three Productive Possibility
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Four Harvesting Space
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Five Rethinking Convention Finding Soil and Sites
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Six Lessons of Care Food Gardens as Nurturing Hubs | |
Seven People Power Growing Together in Community Gardens
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