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

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

Heather Flores
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Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on edible garden design and community-building with a fresh perspective onan age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step plan to help readers build fertile soil,raise their own food, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own “paradise gardens,” whether on a tinycity plot or a half acre of lawn. In Flores’s vision, lawns give way to gardens and gardens lead to stronger, healthier neighborhoods.Food Not Lawns collects the skills, tips, and hands-on instruction needed to turn the vision into reality.This joyful manual inspires readers to apply the principles of the paradise garden—simplicity, resourcefulness,creativity, mindfulness, and community—to all aspects of life. Begin with a few plants; find opportunities to grow inabandoned lots; create playful teaching gardens with neighborhood children; organize your new bounty into communitymeals. In Food Not Lawns, Flores shows us how to reconnect to the earth and to our communities one garden at a time.
Language
English
Pages
344
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
October 01, 2006

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

Heather Flores
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on edible garden design and community-building with a fresh perspective onan age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step plan to help readers build fertile soil,raise their own food, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own “paradise gardens,” whether on a tinycity plot or a half acre of lawn. In Flores’s vision, lawns give way to gardens and gardens lead to stronger, healthier neighborhoods.Food Not Lawns collects the skills, tips, and hands-on instruction needed to turn the vision into reality.This joyful manual inspires readers to apply the principles of the paradise garden—simplicity, resourcefulness,creativity, mindfulness, and community—to all aspects of life. Begin with a few plants; find opportunities to grow inabandoned lots; create playful teaching gardens with neighborhood children; organize your new bounty into communitymeals. In Food Not Lawns, Flores shows us how to reconnect to the earth and to our communities one garden at a time.
Language
English
Pages
344
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
October 01, 2006

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