The Essential Urban Farmer Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition
by Novella Carpenter; Willow Rosenthal
In this indispensable guide, Carpenter (author of "Farm City") and Rosenthal share their experience as successful urban farmers and provide practical blueprints--complete with rich visual material--for novice and experienced growers looking to bring the principles of ethical food to the city streets.
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The "how-to" guide for a new generation of farmers from the author of Farm City and a leading urban garden educator.
In this indispensable guide, Farm City author Novella Carpenter and Willow Rosenthal share their experience as successful urban farmers and provide practical blueprints-complete with rich visual material-for novice and experienced growers looking to bring the principles of ethical food to the city streets. The Essential Urban Farmer guides readers from day one to market day, advising on how to find the perfect site, design a landscape, and cultivate crops. For anyone who has ever grown herbs on windowsills, or tomatoes on fire escapes, this is an invaluable volume with the potential to change our menus, our health, and our cities forever.
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- Title The Essential Urban Farmer
- Author Novella Carpenter; Willow Rosenthal
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 592
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, NY
- Date 2011-12-27
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780143118718 / 0143118714
- Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.12 x 7.4 x 1.3 in (23.16 x 18.80 x 3.30 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress subjects Urban agriculture
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011039313
- Dewey Decimal Code 635.977
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