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Potatoes on rooftops : farming in the city
Publication Information
Toronto : Annick Press, c2012.
Physical Description
83 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary
Offers practical tips and techniques for urban gardening and includes an overview of the how and why of the movement.
Contents
- Part 1. Hungry cities
- City living
- Food miles
- Pass the potato
- Life on the fringes
- Inner-city deserts
- Food oases in unexpected places
- Security alert
- Part 2. Plant a seed
- Changing the urban landscape
- Ye olde victory garden
- Every available inch
- Digging in
- Small but mighty
- The community garden
- Good eats
- Get growing
- Part 3. Green your city
- Beyond kale in kiddie pools
- Turn down the heat
- Chilly cities
- City chicks
- Does it takes like chicken?
- Swimming uptown
- Not going to waste
- Water harvesting
- Part 4. Your green thumb
- Thinking big
- Be part of a community
- Green transformation
- From Motown to growtown
- Suburban blitz
- The teaching garden
- Garden smarts.