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City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing

City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing

by Lorraine Johnson (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $10.76
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: Original
 Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 1553655192
ISBN 13: 9781553655190

Media Reviews
Infectious and motivating... A manifesto on how city dwellers can be more engaged --Gayla Trail, author of You Grow Girl and Grow Great Grub Vibrant and alive... a spirited journey to meet those who are rediscovering the economic, social, and healing power of growing food in the city --Michael Ableman, author of Fields of Plenty passionate, optimistic...a boots-on-the-ground tour of urban farms and a call to civic action. --Pittburgh Post-Gazette
Author Bio
Lorraine Johnson is the author of eight previous books, including Grow Wild!, 100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants for Canadian Gardens, and Tending the Earth: A Gardener's Manifesto. Her writing has appeared in such publications as On Nature, Chatelaine, and the Globe and Mail, and she is a frequent speaker at conferences and garden shows in the United States and Canada.