Urban Farming
Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World
Published on 7. June 2011
416 pages
978-1-935484-83-7 (ISBN)
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It doesn't take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Now, due to a burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don't have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Hobby Farms Urban Farming, from Hobby Farm Press and the same people who bring you Hobby Farms and Hobby Farm Home magazine, will walk every city and suburban dweller down the path of self sustainability. Urban Farming will introduce readers to the concepts of gardening and farming from a high-rise apartment, participating in a community garden, vertical farming, and converting terraces and other small city spaces into fruitful, vegetableful real estate. This comprehensive volume will answer every up and coming urban farmer's questions about how, what, where and why;a new green book for the dedicated citizen seeking to reduce his carbon footprint and grocery bill.
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Urban Farming
Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World
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05/2011
Companion House
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Thomas Fox is a graduate of Fordham University and Fordham University School of Law. An early experience working at Hargrave Vineyard (now Castello di Borghese), Long Island's pioneer winery, awakened in him an appreciation of the shared health of plants, animals, humans, and ecosystems. A former research editor at Reader's Digest, Fox has been published in The Washington Post, Wine Enthusiast, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere. Fox lives with his family in New Jersey, where he is a passionate gardener and sometime urban farmer.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: - THE BIG PICTURE
- 1 - Feeding Our Cities
- Roots of Urban Farming
- So What Happened to Urban Agriculture?
- The New Business of Agriculture
- So What?
- The Renaissance of Urban Farming
- The Future: Fungible Goods.and Bads
- 2 - Marching to Sustainability on Our Stomachs
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Warning: Labels
- An End to Rural Agriculture?
- 3 - Toward an Urban Farming Future
- The State of Urban Farming in the United States
- What Is Possible?
- The Future of American Urban Agriculture
- Ways to Help
- A Grain of Salt
- Part II: - IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD
- 4 - Starting Your Farm
- Urban Farmsteads
- Urban Farming Vessels
- Next Steps
- 5 - The Dirt on Dirt (and Other Substrates)
- Soil Amendments and Conditioners
- Composting How-To
- Mulch
- Soil Mixes
- Soilless Substrates
- 6 - Vegetable Matters
- Your Choice
- Climate/Cultural Conditions
- Farming Ambitions
- Other Considerations
- Herbs
- Miscellaneous Mustards
- Alliums: The Glorious Onion Family
- Other Root Crops
- The Usual Nightshades
- Zukes and Cukes: The Cucurbits
- Legumes
- Leafy Greens
- Miscellaneous
- Alternative Crops
- 7 - Perennial Favorites
- Popular Pomes: Apples and Pears
- Bramblefruit and Gooseberries
- Citrus
- Miscellaneous Small Berries, Vines, and Bush Fruit
- Some Exotic Natives
- Stone Fruits (and a Nut)
- 8 - Plant Management
- Starting Seeds
- Creating a Garden Calendar
- Maximizing Production
- Fertilizing
- Beyond the Seed: Cloning Your Crops
- Pruning and Training
- Integrated Pest Management
- Harvesting the Fruits of Your Labors
- 9 - Urban Livestock
- Goats
- Rabbits
- Chickens
- Fish and Other Aquatic Life
- Snails
- Bees
- Nanoranching
- Unwelcome Urban Livestock
- Glossary
- Notes & Resources
- Index
- Photo Credits
- Copyright Page
