Urban Farming 2nd Ed (eBook)

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

Thomas Fox (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
416 Seiten
Companionhouse Books (Verlag)
978-1-62008-302-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Comprehensive Guide to the Urban Farm Movement It doesn't take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Thanks to the burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don't have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Urban Farming 2nd Edition walks every city and suburban dweller down the path of self-sustainability. It offers practical advice and inspiration for 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 guide to urban food growing 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. Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Home & Garden from the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA). Inside Urban Farming 2nd Edition Portraits of successful urban farmers DIY projects for container gardening Instructions for creating a garden calendar Recommendations for the most foolproof multi-zone plants Plans for companion gardening Time-saving advice about planting, seed starting, and harvesting City-hall survival tips for navigating your town's ordinances Zone map and extensive resource guide

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: 14.11.2018
• Verlagsort: Mount Joy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• 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|farming in the city • 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 • patio gardening • raising your own food • rooftop farm • rooftop farming • rooftop garden • rooftop gardening • self sufficiency • Suburban • sufficiency • sustainability • Sustainable • sustainable city living • Sustainable living • terrace gardening • thomas fox • thomas j. fox • Urban • Urban Agriculture • Urban Farm • urban farmer • Urban Farming • urban farming trend • urban farm movement • urban food growing • urban garden • Urban Gardening • urban homestead • urban homesteading • Urban living • vegetableful • Vertical Farming • windowsill gardening
• ISBN-10: 1-62008-302-7 / 1620083027
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62008-302-4 / 9781620083024