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
by Heather Coburn Flores

Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
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Author: Heather Coburn Flores
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-01
ISBN: 193339207X
Number of pages: 344
Publisher: Chelsea Green
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Book Review: Very little use to anyone actually intersted in converting their lawn.
Summary: 1 Stars

This is a great big book full of interesting ideas but very little of it has to do with converting your lawn into useful garden space. I am all for spreading the word on community and the green movement in general but I was looking for a how to book on gardening not on how to think. Obviously, if you purchase this book you already lean towards that bent and will find nothing useful here. There are other books that have a lot more meat to them without getting preachy. If you have to read this one get if from the library.

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

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 medians; organize community meals; start a street theater troupe or host a local art swap; free your kitchen from refrigeration and enjoy truly fresh, nourishing foods from your own plot of land; work with children to create garden play spaces.

Flores cares passionately about the damaged state of our environment and the ills of our throwaway society. In Food Not Lawns, she shows us how to reclaim the earth one garden at a time.

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