Food
Not Lawns
How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden
and Your Neighborhood Into a Community
by
Heather C. Flores
Foreword by Toby Hemenway
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.
344
pages
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