Urban Farming (eBook)

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

Thomas Fox (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
416 Seiten
Companionhouse Books (Verlag)
978-1-935484-83-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2011
• Verlagsort: Mount Joy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: backyard farm • backyard farmer • Backyard Farming • backyard garden • balcony garden • Benjamin Franklin award • Carbon Footprint • city farm • city farmer • City farming • city food growing • city garden • City Gardening • city living • city ordinances • Community Garden • container gardening • Farm • farming|farming in the city • farming ordinances • Food Revolution • Garden • Gardening • gardening ordinances • Green • green space • growing vegetables • grow your own • hobby farm • home & garden • Homestead • homesteading
• ISBN-10: 1-935484-83-4 / 1935484834
• ISBN-13: 978-1-935484-83-7 / 9781935484837