Urban Farming

Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World

Thomas Fox (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2011
Companion House (Verlag)
978-1-933958-93-4 (ISBN)

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It doesn't take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Now, due to a burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don't have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Hobby Farms Urban Farming, from Hobby Farm Press and the same people who bring you Hobby Farms and Hobby Farm Home magazine, will walk every city and suburban dweller down the path of self sustainability. Urban Farming will introduce readers to the concepts of gardening and farming from a high-rise apartment, participating in a community garden, vertical farming, and converting terraces and other small city spaces into fruitful, vegetableful real estate. This comprehensive volume will answer every up and coming urban farmer's questions about how, what, where and why--a new green book for the dedicated citizen seeking to reduce his carbon footprint and grocery bill.

Thomas Fox is a graduate of Fordham University and Fordham University School of Law. An early experience working at Hargrave Vineyard (now Castello di Borghese), Long Island's pioneer winery, awakened in him an appreciation of the shared health of plants, animals, humans, and ecosystems. A former research editor at Reader's Digest, Fox has been published in The Washington Post, Wine Enthusiast, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere. Fox lives with his family in New Jersey, where he is a passionate gardener and sometime urban farmer.

Part 1: The Big Picture 1: Feeding Our Cities 2: Marching to Sustainability on Our Stomachs 3: Toward an Urban Farming Future Part 2: In Your Own Backyard 4: Starting Your Farm 5: The Dirt On Dirt 6: Annual Crops: An Overview 7: Perennial Crops: An Overview 8: Plant Management 9: Urban Livestock

Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 242 mm
Gewicht	1191 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-933958-93-6 / 1933958936
ISBN-13	978-1-933958-93-4 / 9781933958934
Zustand	Neuware