Food Not Lawns: How To Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community

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Overview


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.

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Certified permaculture designer Flores advocates living an ecologically friendly lifestyle by creating gardens. Following a foreword by Toby Hemenway (Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture), she discusses the identification of garden sites, the water cycle and water conservation, soils and composting, plants, how to save seed, project design, the fostering of community involvement, the inclusion of children in projects, the sharing of information, and activism. Many of Flores's ideas are for the extremely committed. She advocates dumpster digging, composting human feces, and living life without appliances like refrigerators. She also suggests growing food on land, not necessarily with the landowner's permission, and espouses gray-water conservation techniques that may be illegal in some communities. While growing your own food is a worthy goal, Flores doesn't always seem to recognize the hard work involved. She also doesn't expand on all of her ideas, but she does offer an extensive list of resources for further research. Flores has an engaging style and is clearly passionate about her subject, and her debut book provides an alternative viewpoint, but it will probably not interest mainstream audiences. Purchase as required.-Sue O'Brien, Downers Grove P.L., IL Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781933392073
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
  • Publication date: 10/15/2006
  • Pages: 334
  • Sales rank: 425,397
  • Product dimensions: 9.90 (w) x 10.88 (h) x 0.84 (d)

Meet the Author


Heather C. Flores, a certified permaculture designer, holds a BA degree in ecology, education, and the arts from Goddard College. She offers environmental landscape design and consultation services. Flores' next project is to use low-tech performance arts to bridge cultural and economic gaps in environmental education. She lives in Oregon.

Toby Hemenway is the author of the first major North American book on permaculture, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, and an adjunct assistant professor at Portland State University. He was the editor of Permaculture Activist for five years and is currently working to develop urban sustainability resources in Portland, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Foreword

1. Free Your Lawn and the Rest Will Follow

2. Gaining Ground

3. The Water Cycle

4. The Living Soil

5. Plants and Polycultures

6. Seed Stewardship

7. Ecological Design

8. Beyond the Garden

9. Into the Community

10. Reaching Out

11. Working Together

12. The Next Generation

Acknowledgments

Resources

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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  • Anonymous

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    Not what I expected

    I expected a book on how to transform my lawn into a veggie/herb/fruit garden that the neighbors wouldn't object to. What I got was a very labor intensive, not practical for the average person and neighborhood instructions on building water retention stuff. Not helpful for whaT I was looking for.

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