Rissman, Rebecca
Summary: "Urban Farming helps readers trace the history of farming in urban areas, understand why we do it, explore the science behind it, and discuss controversies from an objective viewpoint. The title will engage readers on the topic and help them to weigh the pros and cons as they make their own food decisions."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J635.9 RISEspiritu, Kevin
Summary: "Epic Homesteading is the ultimate guide to starting a modern, high-tech homestead with advice on growing and preserving food, raising chickens and bees, utilizing solar power, harvesting rainwater, and so much more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Once there was a lot full of trash. Now there is a lush, green farm. This is the story of Harlem Grown, a garden in New York City"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 635.9 HILSummary: The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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Despommier, Dickson D.
Summary: When the author, a Columbia professor, set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crisis, he didn't just think big, he thought up. His stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These multi-story intensely managed indoor farms, grown inside skyscrapers, are capable of producing traditional greenhouse crops, as well as pigs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 DESAllen, Will
Summary: Describes the author's early experiences as a sharecropper's son and a KFC executive before building a preeminent urban farm to feed, educate, and employ thousands of at-risk youths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2012
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Summary: City Chicks is a remarkable trend-setting book for poultry lovers and urban agriculturists. It combines hands-on, real-life experience to bring you one of the most complete authorative books on micro-flock management.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Earth Publications 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 FORGustafson, Katherine.
Summary: "A fascinating exploration of America's food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan's bestselling Omnivore's Dilemma Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets, organizations, businesses and institutions across America that are pushing for a more sustainable food system in America. Gustafson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 GUSCarpenter, Novella
Summary: Novella Carpenter loves cities--the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she's the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. She decides that it might be possible to have it both ways when she moves to a ramshackle house in inner-city Oakland and discovers a weed-choked, garbage-strewn abandoned lot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.9173 CARGraham, Chris
Summary: "This book is a collection of 500 tips for keeping chickens, illustrated throughout with specially commissioned linocut prints, is an ideal companion for newcomers to chicken keeping and also a perfect gift for more experienced bird lovers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.5 GRAMorrow, Rosemary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kangaroo Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Garden MorrowSummary: This program looks into the urban farming phenomenon in Montreal, where community gardens have been a staple for decades; in Toronto, where people have taken their crops to the skies for lack of space; and in Detroit, a city that is reclaiming space left vacant after abandoned buildings are demolished. It is in "bombed-out" locales like Detroit that urban farming really demonstrates what it can...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Rich, Sarah.
Summary: Profiles sixteen urban farms located in major metropolitan areas across the country, each operated by individuals and communities committed to sustainable and innovative agriculture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.977 RICJones, Steven
Summary: "Homesteading From Scratch is for people who want to do things differently--the type of people who want to eat real food, grow herbs, make cheese, raise baby animals, hunt mushrooms, pick blackberries, unschool their children, can jelly, ferment kraut, farm organically, connect to nature, live intentionally, and more. Guiding readers from desire to full-blown off-the-grid living--and everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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Summary: "Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022
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Contents: Shrinking cities -- Detroit today -- Potential and problems in urban agriculture -- Road diets and roundabouts -- Healing a wounded landscape -- Filling the vacancy -- Revving the urban economic engine -- The best idea Detroit's never tried -- Who governs? -- The way forward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010