Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community

Author: H. C. FloresBrand: Brand: Chelsea Green PublishingFeatures: Ships from VermontBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 344Release Date: 01-10-2006Details: 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 medi