Urban Farms provides in-depth profiles of 16 innovative farms located in major metropolitan areas across the country, each operated by passionate individuals and communities committed to growing their own fruits and vegetables and raising animals. Included in these pages are some of the leaders in the movement, from Novella Carpenter's farm in an empty lot in Oakland to Growing Power's vast compound in Milwaukee. In addition to stories about the farms and their owners, sidebars provide basic how-to tips for such activities ...
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Urban Farms provides in-depth profiles of 16 innovative farms located in major metropolitan areas across the country, each operated by passionate individuals and communities committed to growing their own fruits and vegetables and raising animals. Included in these pages are some of the leaders in the movement, from Novella Carpenter's farm in an empty lot in Oakland to Growing Power's vast compound in Milwaukee. In addition to stories about the farms and their owners, sidebars provide basic how-to tips for such activities as composting, canning, beekeeping, and growing vegetables. A burgeoning movement that is fast catching on, urban farming taps into many touchstones of the zeitgeist, including environmental awareness, the foodie culture, localism, distrust of mass-production farming practices, and the DIY approach to life and living. Praise for Urban Farms : "Sarah C. Rich's handsome, intelligent URBAN FARMS (Abrams, $30) chronicles a movement to bring kale to the people, an effort that stretches across the country, from Brooklyn to Oakland. . . . Benson's spirited photographs capture the joy and beauty of urban farming's bounty. No vase full of lush peonies from the grounds of an elegant estate could inspire such looks of eager joy as do the tomatoes harvested out of New York City's Edible Schoolyard. These vegetable gardeners--and farmers--are working against such odds that there's simply no excuse to let a comparatively lush suburban backyard lie fallow." -- New York Times Book Review
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Book Small quarto, hardcover, VG in beige and green pictorial boards. 224 pp. with wonderful photo illustrations throughout. Provides in-depth profiles of approximately 20 established and emerging urban farm leaders across America, from Brooklyn to LA. The types of farms featured encompass a full spectrum of large, organised community farms to individuals growing their own food for personal consumption. The farms are located within city limits and all raise not only vegetables but animals; such as bees, chickens, rabbits and goats. Encouraging ideas from tomatoes grown on fire escapes to lettuce planted on the White House lawn, city-dwellers are taking an increasing interest not only in eating local food, but also in growing it. The reasons for this upsurge are numerous and they encompass many important cultural touchstones of the movement; environmental awareness, diet-related health concerns.
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