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City 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
Introduction: Bringing Dinner Home * 1 1 Sowing the City, Reaping the Benefits * 9 2 Embracing a Food-growing Ethic * 31 3 Productive Possibility * 47 4 Harvesting Space * 67 5 Rethinking Convention: Finding Soil and Sites * 91 6 Lessons of Care: Food Gardens as Nurturing Hubs * 119 7 People Power: Growing Together in Community Gardens * 131 8 Rogues on a Mission: Guerrilla Gardening and Foraging * 155 9 What the Cluck?: Backyard Chickens * 179 10 The Edible City * 203 Epilogue: Adventures in Possibility * 215 Resources A Selected List of Urban Farms and Edible Demonstration Gardens * 221 A Selected List of Urban Agriculture and Food-related Organizations * 229 A Selected List of Books * 233 Acknowledgments * 243 Index * 245



