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Urban farming : sustainable city living in your backyard, in your community, and in the world / Thomas J. Fox.

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781620083017
ISBN: 1620083019
Physical Description: 415 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: 2nd edition.
Publisher: Mount Joy, PA : Fox Chapel Publishing, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Feeding our cities -- Marching to sustainability on our stomachs -- Toward an urban farming future -- Starting your farm -- The dirt on dirt (and other substrates) -- Vegetable matters -- Perennial favorites -- Plant management -- Urban livestock.