Urban Agriculture

by Tracey, David, Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9780865716940
• ISBN10: 0865716943
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-26
• Publisher: New Society Pub

Summary

The Farm of the Future might be your neighbor's suburban lawn, the roof of your uptown condominium, or the co-op market garden in the vacant lot down the street. Urban Agriculture is a detailed look at the next logical step in the local food movement. It offers inspirational advice and working examples to help you dig in and become more self-sufficient with your own food choices.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Local man lost	p. 5
City on a thrill	p. 6
Reading plan	p. 8
The usual disclaimers	p. 10
Home Sweet Farm: Kitchen Gardens in the Kitchen	p. 13
Why you should be worried	p. 15
Why you shouldn't be worried	p. 19
Bean there, grown that	p. 20
In other words	p. 21
One size fits one only	p. 22
Hot food	p. 25
You're in	p. 26
Making the grade	p. 27
Will it pay?	p. 29
Sprout up	p. 30
Name that green	p. 32
No, you taste it	p. 33
Rinse and repeat	p. 34
Sprout farmer-Chris Thoreau	p. 35
Space invaders	p. 40
Condo Acres: Container Farming for Confined Spaces	p. 43
How to plant a seed	p. 44
Space case	p. 45
Here comes the sun	p. 46
Water, water, everywhere	p. 49
Feed your head of cabbage	p. 50
Media frenzy	p. 51
Pots a plenty	p. 53
Message in a bottle	p. 53
Potted herbs	p. 55
Potted vegetables	p. 56
Potted fruit	p. 56
Potted flowers	p. 57
Just watch me	p. 57
Bag one	p. 57
Aquaponics	p. 59
School of fish	p. 61
Edible Estates: Adding Food to Home Garden Design	p. 67
Beauty and the bean	p. 68
Edible landscaping	p. 68
Site lines	p. 69
Start small	p. 70
Raise your game	p. 72
Simple box	p. 73
Uber-box	p. 74
The big organic	p. 76
Lively up yourself	p. 77
Old school organics	p. 77
Soil 101	p. 80
Rock on	p. 80
Something's rotten	p. 81
Keep the grass off	p. 82
Five steps to sheet mulching	p. 83
Plant the menu	p. 83
Mushroom among us	p. 84
Daily special	p. 86
Rows or blocks?	p. 87
Weed creeps	p. 88
Water well	p. 89
Rainwater harvesting	p. 89
Root of the matter	p. 90
Class worms	p. 91
Wriggling reds	p. 92
Global grower	p. 94
Five ways to practice Earth-friendly farming	p. 94
The Way Back: From Backyard to Cropland	p. 97
What to grow?	p. 99
Design matters	p. 100
Don't ask, don't till	p. 100
Ten characteristics of good design	p. 101
Paths	p. 103
Borders and fences	p. 104
Ins and outs	p. 105
Benches and sheds	p. 105
Design flexibility	p. 106
Hoop house how-to	p. 106
Two-block diet	p. 107
Borrowed land farmer	p. 109
Is it paydirt?	p. 113
Natural pest appeasement	p. 113
Integrated pest massacre	p. 114
Squeeze play	p. 115
Bio-weapons	p. 116
Chemical friends	p. 116
Slug fest	p. 116
Blasted aphids	p. 117
Bug farmer	p. 117
Tool talk	p. 118
How to dig a hole	p. 119
Six tools to get started	p. 120
Chicken city	p. 123
You can too	p. 126
The Popular Front: Plant your Food Flag	p. 129
Clean up your act	p. 130
Eight alarming facts about lawns	p. 131
Community supported agriculture	p. 131
CSA farmer-Cam Macdonald	p. 132
Winter farming	p. 133
Save our seeds	p. 136
Dirty talk	p. 138
Know the land	p. 139
Lead out	p. 140
Get a lift	p. 140
Air pollution	p. 141
Mean streets	p. 142
Home farmer: linsoo Park	p. 143
Political farmer	p. 144
Bee farmer	p. 149
Go Public: Eat Your City	p. 151
Wild food farmer	p. 151
Cover crops	p. 156
Downtown farmer	p. 158
Go garlic	p. 161
School farms	p. 161
Teacher farmer	p. 162
Up on the roof	p. 165
Return of the Commons: Growing Community	p. 171
Growing community	p. 172
What is a community garden?	p. 173
And one for all	p. 174
Farm friendly	p. 174
How to start a community garden	p. 176
Better together	p. 179
City politics, farm politics	p. 181
Speak for the Trees: Up with Public Orchards	p. 187
TreePeople	p. 188
Tree City	p. 189
How to plant a tree	p. 190
Big fig	p. 192
Fruit for all	p. 193
Community orchards	p. 195
Whose fruit?	p. 196
Glean this	p. 198
Shrub love	p. 199
New Urban Farms: Big-ish is Better-ish	p. 201
Land matters	p. 202
You're so special	p. 205
New family, new family farm	p. 205
Super non-store	p. 206
Pocket markets	p. 208
Guerrilla farms	p. 209
Farm entrepreneurs	p. 209
Find a niche	p. 210
People farmer	p. 211
Co-op farmer	p. 215
Cuban model	p. 219
City Food of the Future: Whiz-bang or WTF?	p. 227
Can organic feed the world?	p. 228
No farmer, no farm	p. 230
The future now	p. 232
Notes	p. 235
Index	p. 239
About the Author	p. 245
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