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Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community

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Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help farmsteaders and city dwellers alike build fertile soil, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own "paradise gardens."

But Food Not Lawns doesn’t begin and end in the seed bed. This joyful permaculture lifestyle manual inspires readers to apply the principles of the paradise garden—simplicity, resourcefulness, creativity, mindfulness, and community—to all aspects of life. Plant "guerilla gardens" in barren intersections and medians; organize community meals; start a street theater troupe or host a local art swap; free your kitchen from refrigeration and enjoy truly fresh, nourishing foods from your own plot of land; work with children to create garden play spaces.

Flores cares passionately about the damaged state of our environment and the ills of our throwaway society. In Food Not Lawns, she shows us how to reclaim the earth one garden at a time.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 631.58
EAN: 9781933392073
ISBN: 193339207X
Label: Chelsea Green
Manufacturer: Chelsea Green
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 344
Publication Date: 2006-10-01
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Studio: Chelsea Green


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
• Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide
• The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series)
• Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
• Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

A poor how-to guide -
Having recently purchased and read 3 books on urban and community gardening, it is easy to state that this book is the poorest of the 3. To sum up the difference quickly: the primary tone and goal of the book is activism and not actual gardening.

However, it also is not a very good activism book as it shows the anger and frustration of the writer first and foremost. For a book on building communities, it quickly alienates and attacks people, corporations, government, etc.

There are many pieces of information that have value within the pages, but the content is commonly far too general. The tone and style lend toward a constant introduction with vague generalities then followed by a quick picture or chart of detailed information with little further in-depth reference to it.

There are few personal stories of success or of how the methods included were utilized by the author. It is a book that reads like someone talking at you vs. talking with you. Hardly conversational, it reads like a manifesto vs. today's society.

There is much to change about our methods of food production today, but this book starts primarily by trying to make its reader angry and turning them to the cause at hand. From my perspective, less than 20% of the book had value. It isn't useless, but the writing style, the content and the apparent goal of the book do not serve the subject well.

Food not lawns -
Great ideas. It would be nice if everyone who had a little patch of lawn would convert it to garden. It is a lot of work to care for either a lawn or a garden but the dividends of the garden are better than the looks of a lawn.

Don't waste your money! -
It's not that the information in this book is bad or wrong, it's just that it can be obtained from any permaculture website in about 5 minutes. The book is very limited. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

Food in your own yard -
This is a interesting lots of help starting you own garden in your front yard or back.

Wonderful Book -
This book has so many great ideas that I just had to have it. She makes many great "eco" points that had me going "ah, I never thought of that." I'm very glad I purchased this book.