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Author: Indira Naidoo Publisher: Lantern ISBN: 9781921383816 Category : Community gardens Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Join Indira Naidoo, bestselling author of The Edible Balcony, on her inspiring journey as she visits the communities turning concrete into crops. Vegie patches are no longer confined to our backyards and balconies; they're spilling out across our streets and suburbs, taking root wherever a seed can grow. Neighbours are working side by side, batlling council restrictions, wild weather and pest attacks to transform urban spaces into edible oases. In The Edible City, Indira visits some of Australia's most innovative and memorable urban green spaces, from Sydney's Wayside Chapel's award-winning vegetable garden and beehive, to the rooftop wormfarm above a Melbourne restaurant. She discovers that in the process these urban gardeners reconnect with their food but, most importantly, they reconnect with each other. Indira also shares her tips for setting up your own community garden, as well as practical advice on beekeeping, wormfarming, composting and growing your own fruit and veg. Plus there are 40 delicious recipes to cook and enjoy. Community gardens change people's lives. They reconnect with food, but most importantly, they also reconnect with each other."--Wheelers.co.nz.
Author: Andre Viljoen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136414320 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 311
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This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to shape the future of our cities quality of life within them. Urban design is shown in practice through international case studies and the arguments presented are supported by quantified economic, environmental and social justifications.
Author: Christina Palassio Publisher: Coach House Books ISBN: 1770562516 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 313
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If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, food-security concerns, how chefs are trained: how a city nourishes itself might say more than anything else about what kind of city it is. With a cornucopia of essays on comestibles, The Edible City considers how one city eats. It includes dishes on peaches and poverty, on processing plants and public gardens, on rats and bees and bad restaurant service, on schnitzel and school lunches. There are incisive studies of food-safety policy, of feeding the poor, and of waste, and a happy tale about a hardy fig tree. Together they form a saucy picture of how Toronto – and, by extension, every city – sustains itself, from growing basil on balconies to four-star restaurants. Dig into The Edible City and get the whole story, from field to fork.
Author: Rebekah Denn Publisher: ISBN: 9780692740408 Category : Languages : en Pages : 80
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The story of food in Seattle is a living history. Through photos and narratives, "Edible City" takes us from the city's early eating days up through the modern boom, introducing us to iconic figures and signature foods. It also includes several recipes that helped define the region, from the Dutch Baby invented by a local restaurateur to an irresistible shortcake using strawberries developed by Washington State University. From farmers markets to foraged foods to famous restaurants, we learn how what we eat helps show who we are.
Author: Eric Toensmeier Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing ISBN: 1603584005 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 1
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When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a "permaculture paradise" replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden's needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms. In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.
Author: Alex Mitchell Publisher: Kyle Cathie Limited ISBN: 9781856269469 Category : Balcony gardening Languages : en Pages : 0
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Longtime urban gardener Mitchell shows readers how to transform whatever space they have, from a balcony or rooftop to a fire escape or window box, into a profusion of fresh, seasonal produce.
Author: Jennifer Cockrall-King Publisher: Prometheus Books ISBN: 1616144599 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 374
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A global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands—and in our cities. This book examines alternative food systems in cities around the globe that are shortening their food chains, growing food within their city limits, and taking their "food security" into their own hands. The author, an award-winning food journalist, sought out leaders in the urban-agriculture movement and visited cities successfully dealing with "food deserts." What she found was not just a niche concern of activists but a global movement that cuts across the private and public spheres, economic classes, and cultures. She describes a global movement happening from London and Paris to Vancouver and New York to establish alternatives to the monolithic globally integrated supermarket model. A cadre of forward-looking, innovative people has created growing spaces in cities: on rooftops, backyards, vacant lots, along roadways, and even in "vertical farms." Whether it’s a community public orchard supplying the needs of local residents or an urban farm that has reclaimed a derelict inner city lot to grow and sell premium market veggies to restaurant chefs, the urban food revolution is clearly underway and working. This book is an exciting, fascinating chronicle of a game-changing movement, a rebellion against the industrial food behemoth, and a reclaiming of communities to grow, distribute, and eat locally.
Author: Christina Palassio
Author: Christina Palassio
Author: Richard Britz
Author: Indira Naidoo
Author: Andre Viljoen
Author: Christina Palassio
Author: Rebekah Denn
Author: Eric Toensmeier
Author: Alex Mitchell
Author: Jennifer Cockrall-King
Author: David Craft