Growing a Garden City: How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More are ... of Local Agriculture and Community - Hardcover

Smith, Jeremy N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1616081082 ISBN 13: 9781616081089

Publisher: Skyhorse, 2010

Synopsis

Fifteen people—plus a class of first graders—tell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community...and how they can change yours, too.

Growing a Garden City includes:

• Fifteen first-person stories of personal and civic transformation from a range of individuals, including farmers and community garden members, a low-income senior and troubled teen, a foodie, a food bank officer, and many more
• Seven in-depth “How It Works” sections on student farms, community gardens, community supported agriculture (CSA), community education, farm work therapy, community outreach, and more
• Detailed information on dozens of additional resources from relevant books and websites to government programs and national non-profit organizations
• Over 80 full-color photographs showing a diverse local food community at home, work, and play

Read Growing a Garden City to:

• Learn how people like you, with busy lives like yours, can and do enjoy the many benefits of local food without having to become full-time organic farmers
• Gain the information you need to organize or get involved in your own "growing community” anywhere across the country and around the world

About this title

About the Author:

Jeremy N. Smith’s work has appeared in Gourmet, Saveur, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Chicago Tribune. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

Chad Harder is a photojournalist and the chief photographer for The Missoula Independent.

Sepp Jannotta is a journalist living in Missoula, Montana, covering everything from sports to government to the environment.

Bill McKibben is the author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, among other titles; he is the founder of 350.org, which in 2010 organized what CNN called “the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history.”

Review:

"This book demonstrates what can happen when a diverse group of people come together around the simple act of growing food. The voices represented here are fresh, they are passionate, they are incredibly committed, and they are part of a movement that is healing our world one handful of seeds, one bucket of compost, one garden, one meal at a time. In a time when the majority of the world's people live in cities, Growing a Garden City provides us with an inspiring, hopeful, and essential model." --Michael Ableman, farmer, founder of The Center for Urban Agriculture, and author of "Fields of Plenty"

"Hooray for the good green thumbs of the Garden City. May their example continue to spread far and wide. We've never needed it more badly, or wanted it as much!" --Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future," from the foreword to "Growing a Garden City"

"This beautifully written, gorgeously illustrated book is full of engaging stories, practical advice, wisdom, and inspiration about one of the most hopeful phenomena in today's world: the local food movement." --Daniel Kemmis, former Mayor of Missoula, Montana, and author of "The Good City and the Good Life"

"I love this book. It proves that every one of us, and every patch of soil, can make a difference. The way we connect with nature, with our food, and with each other can change the world." --Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and U.N. Messenger of Peace

About this edition

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1616081082
• ISBN 13: 9781616081089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240