Aug 27th, 2010
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
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Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
Product Description
Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution—it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt.
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.
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
This is a very shallow book by the new generation of writers that find fault with everything done in the twenty years before they were born,
Its very shallow, big type and very preachy.
If you are interested in gardening, try Giaas garden, a much more serious study of permiculture.
In this rambling book, the aurthor boasts of not making over 8 k a year, but inherited the money to buy her farm!
I liked camping living until I was thirty, now I am 45 and really like my freezer and new stove.( yes, I have my own three hens and belong to a CSA)
I know a number of the original flower/farm people, and as they got older they liked having a few more comforts.
So this is one of the new gen X books, shallow to a fault. Nothing but sound bites.
the aurthor sems all hyped about third world living, but I am not sure she has ever been to a third world and seen how hard that style of life is,,it is easy to glamorius the distant!!!
Star Rating: 1 / 5
…this is an excellent book. I might not agree with the author on every point, but there is enough good material in it that I am glad I purchased it.
Star Rating: 5 / 5
definitely not a how to book. there are no pictures – i would have liked to see pictures of her garden….
Star Rating: 1 / 5
This is a interesting lots of help starting you own garden in your front yard or back.
Star Rating: 4 / 5
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!
Star Rating: 1 / 5