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Breaking through concrete : building an urban farm revival /
People have always grown food in urban spaces--on windowsills and sidewalks, and in backyards and neighborhood parks--but today, urban farmers are leading an environmental and social movement that transforms our national food system. To explore this agricultural renaissance, brothers David and Micha...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2011]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Mark Winne ; P-Patch Community Garden Program [of] Seattle, Washington ; The neighborhood garden ; How to : change your city's urban agriculture zoning codes
- Homeless Garden Project [of] Santa Cruz, California ; The farm as therapy ; How to : grow good, safe food
- Fairview Gardens and the Center for Urban Agriculture [of] Santa Barbara, California ; The historic farm ; How to : plant perennial fruit trees in the city
- Denver Urban Gardens [of] Denver, Colorado ; The garden as community ; How to : turn your waste into black gold
- Juniper Gardens and Cultivate Kansas City [of] Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri ; The farm for profit ; How to : access start-up capital for urban food projects ; Versailles Community [of] New Orleans, Louisiana ; Backyards of bounty ; How to : develop a congregational urban farm
- Jones Valley Urban Farm [of] Birmingham, Alabama ; The education and production farm ; How to : engage the community with education programs
- Greensgrow Farms and the Philadelphia Project [of] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; The nonprofit, for-profit farm ; How to : rehabilitate contaminated soils
- Eagle Street Rooftop Farm [of] Brooklyn, New York ; The rooftop farm ; How to : convert rooftops to residential gardens and urban farms
- Catherine Ferguson Academy [of] Detroit, Michigan ; The alternative curriculum farm ; How to : raise urban livestock
- Wood Street Urban Farm and Growing Home [of] Chicago, Illinois ; The job training farm ; How to : extend the growing season with hoop houses and greenhouses
- Sandhill Organics and Prairie Crossing [of] Grayslake, Illinois ; The peri-urban farm ; How to : start an urban farm
- Conclusion / Edwin Marty.