Book
Paradise lot : two plant geeks, one-tenth of an acre, and the making of an edible garden oasis in the city
Publication Information
White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., 2013.
Physical Description
234 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
Tells the story of two single men who turned a backyard lot into a productive garden, with advice on setting up a permaculture, choosing suitable food plants, and designing an urban garden that functions as a natural ecosystem.
Contents
- Pt. 1. Sleep (2000-2004)
- Germination
- Starting a seed company and gaining a gardening comrade
- Let's get a place
- Gardening behind the tofu curtain
- Sun, shade, soil, slope
- A model ecosystem...behind Kmart
- Guild-build
- Pt. 2. Creep (2004-2007)
- It takes a village to plant a food forest
- Tacky tropicalesque takes off
- The edible water garden
- Urban farming is my day job
- The greenhouse : Getting serious
- Perennial vegetable spring
- Putting down roots and a parakeet visit
- Meanwhile back at the farm
- A movement germinates
- Pt. 3. Leap (2007-2009)
- Excess success
- Turning weeds into eggs
- Grazing berries
- Fruits and nuts
- A nourishing nectary neighborhood
- Patterns of nitrogen fixation
- Groundcover carpets
- The garden's impact beyond the fence line
- Pt. 4. Reap (2009-2012)
- Emergent property
- Guiding succession
- Indigenous management inspiration
- Next-generation polycultures
- Checking back in after eight seasons
- What's still on the list?