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Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
by Heather Coburn Flores
from Chelsea Green

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• lightweight
  definitely not a how to book. there are no pictures - i would have liked to see pictures of her garden....

• Not a how to book, or is it
  Anyone who picks up this book expecting to find a "How to" manual on converting your lawn into an edible garden will be disappointed. However, if you're looking for some fresh ideas on not only changing out your lawn for a garden mixed with a little permaculture, activism, optimism, and community building ideas, this is the book for you.
  I read this book twice because there is so much good information and ideas in it that it was hard to wrap my head around the first time. Coming back to the book a few... more info

• Harvesting a movement for food security, ecological sustainability and social justice!
  Having never been able to afford proper permaculture education and living far away from where such courses are offered anyway, I found this book to be a real blessing, full of practical information on polycultural organic gardening, composting, vermiculture, ecological design, appropriate technology, edible weeds, biodynamic farming, seed stewardship, community organizing, conflict resolution, activism, ecological pedagogy, and more. Certainly, if you are interested in planting a backyard or community... more info

• An Inspiring Book
  Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community is an inspiring book for any person who wants to find healthy ways to grow his or her own food in a natural way and to encourage others in the neighborhood to do the same. The book provides both the expected common-sense approach to improving soil conditions and water retention through composting and other methods, but also offers suggestions that inspire the rebellious, anti-establishment side of the reader to... more info

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