The Edible City

Author : Christina Palassio,Alana Wilcox
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770562516

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The Edible City by Christina Palassio,Alana Wilcox Pdf

If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, food-security concerns, how chefs are trained: how a city nourishes itself might say more than anything else about what kind of city it is. With a cornucopia of essays on comestibles, The Edible City considers how one city eats. It includes dishes on peaches and poverty, on processing plants and public gardens, on rats and bees and bad restaurant service, on schnitzel and school lunches. There are incisive studies of food-safety policy, of feeding the poor, and of waste, and a happy tale about a hardy fig tree. Together they form a saucy picture of how Toronto – and, by extension, every city – sustains itself, from growing basil on balconies to four-star restaurants. Dig into The Edible City and get the whole story, from field to fork.

Author : John Rensten
Publisher : Boxtree
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0752266136

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The Edible City by John Rensten Pdf

As we walk through the city with our headphones in or our eyes glued to screens, it's easy to forget that we are surrounded by wonderful things to eat. Our parks, canals, gardens and wild spaces are crammed full of delicious, nutrient-rich plants; all we need to know is how to find them. In The Edible City, urban forager John Rensten gives us the tools to identify, source and cook delicious food from the bounty around us. This account of a year of urban foraging is perfect for the armchair naturalist or home cook looking for exciting new ingredients to experiment with. Once you catch the foraging bug, you'll never look at the city around you in the same way again.

Author : Indira Naidoo
Publisher : Lantern
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Community gardens
ISBN : 192138381X

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Edible City by Indira Naidoo Pdf

"Join Indira Naidoo, bestselling author of The Edible Balcony, on her inspiring journey as she visits the communities turning concrete into crops. Vegie patches are no longer confined to our backyards and balconies; they're spilling out across our streets and suburbs, taking root wherever a seed can grow. Neighbours are working side by side, batlling council restrictions, wild weather and pest attacks to transform urban spaces into edible oases. In The Edible City, Indira visits some of Australia's most innovative and memorable urban green spaces, from Sydney's Wayside Chapel's award-winning vegetable garden and beehive, to the rooftop wormfarm above a Melbourne restaurant. She discovers that in the process these urban gardeners reconnect with their food but, most importantly, they reconnect with each other. Indira also shares her tips for setting up your own community garden, as well as practical advice on beekeeping, wormfarming, composting and growing your own fruit and veg. Plus there are 40 delicious recipes to cook and enjoy. Community gardens change people's lives. They reconnect with food, but most importantly, they also reconnect with each other."--Wheelers.co.nz.

Author : Rebekah Denn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692740406

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Edible City by Rebekah Denn Pdf

The story of food in Seattle is a living history. Through photos and narratives, "Edible City" takes us from the city's early eating days up through the modern boom, introducing us to iconic figures and signature foods. It also includes several recipes that helped define the region, from the Dutch Baby invented by a local restaurateur to an irresistible shortcake using strawberries developed by Washington State University. From farmers markets to foraged foods to famous restaurants, we learn how what we eat helps show who we are.

Author : Alex Mitchell
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781609614119

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The Edible Balcony by Alex Mitchell Pdf

You don't need a sprawling backyard or spacious raised beds to grow delicious fruits, vegetables, and herbs of your own. In The Edible Balcony, longtime urban gardener Alex Mitchell shows how to transform whatever space you have, from a balcony or rooftop to a fire escape or window box, into a profusion of fresh, seasonal produce. While raising your own produce is eco-friendly in itself, you'll learn how to plant, grow, and water as sustainably as possible to ensure your edible Eden remains green and productive all year long. Plus, with a collection of innovative, step-by-step projects for designing colorful pots and plant supports with recycled containers and other household paraphernalia, you'll double your eco-friendliness, avoid hours of shopping, and be able to infuse your space with your own personal flair and style. Who knew saving time, money, and the environment could be so much fun? A collection of practical advice, fabulous container projects, and stunning examples of how gardeners around the world are successfully transforming urban spaces into abundant fruit and vegetable plots, The Edible Balcony is your guide to creating attractive, responsible, and thoroughly rewarding small space gardens—and perhaps never having to settle for grocery store produce again.

Author : Andre Viljoen,Joe Howe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136414329

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Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes by Andre Viljoen,Joe Howe Pdf

This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution. It provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable urban landscape: Urban Agriculture. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, urban agriculture would reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs to the city dwelling consumers. The revolutionary and innovative concepts put forth in this book have potential to shape the future of our cities quality of life within them. Urban design is shown in practice through international case studies and the arguments presented are supported by quantified economic, environmental and social justifications.

Author : Judith Anger,Immo Fiebrig,Martin Schnyder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Balcony gardening
ISBN : 1856231372

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Edible Cities by Judith Anger,Immo Fiebrig,Martin Schnyder Pdf

Want to grow food but have nothing larger than a balcony, windowsill or a piece of wall? No problem! This gardening book can help you to grow your own fruit, vegetables, herbs and even mushrooms in small spaces in the most ecological way possible. It shows you why the urban landscape can be a great place for permaculture.

Author : Richard Britz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : MINN:319510000095222

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The Edible City Resource Manual by Richard Britz Pdf

Author : Alys Fowler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781936740635

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The Edible Garden by Alys Fowler Pdf

In this timely new book, BBC star and Gardening World's thrifty and resourceful Alys Fowler shows that there is a way to take the good life and re-fashion it to fit in with life in the city. Abandoning the limitations of traditional gardening methods, she has created a beautifully productive garden where tomatoes sit happily next to roses, carrots are woven between the lavenders and potatoes grow in pots on the patio. And all of this is produced in a way that mimics natural systems, producing delicious homegrown food for her table. And she shares her favorite recipes for the hearty dishes, pickles and jams she makes to use up her bountiful harvest, proving that no-one need go hungry on her grow-your-own regime. Good for the pocket, good for the environment and hugely rewarding for the soul, The Edible Garden urges urbanites everywhere to chuck out the old gardening rules and create their own haven that's as good to look at as it is to eat.

Author : Zach Loeks
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781771423236

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The Edible Ecosystem Solution by Zach Loeks Pdf

Start a peaceful revolution by planting an edible ecosystem and sharing the experience with your neighbors Humans have always thrived in rich, diverse, edible ecosystems. Yet most cities and suburbs are blanketed by lawns, ornamentals, and a lack of biodiversity, let alone anything edible. It is within these sterile landscapes that seeds of an edible ecosystem lie. The Edible Ecosystem Solution is a comprehensive, practical guidebook that looks at underutilized spaces to reveal the many opportunities for landscape transformation that are both far-reaching and immediately beneficial and enjoyable. Contents include: Hundreds of full-color infographics, illustrations, and photographs that clearly outline the principles and concepts of edible landscape design and benefits How to get started with as little as 25 square feet of land How to transition a garden plot into a place of edible abundance and an edible biodiversity hot spot, living laboratory, and a source point for transitioning and transforming community and culture Choosing appropriate plants for insects, wildlife, and food production Scaling up and networking backyard edible ecosystems at the neighborhood level and beyond to build community food security and resilience. The Edible Ecosystem Solution is for everyone with access to a bit of yard, a desire for food security, biodiversity, and a beautiful and resilient community, and for anyone who wants to reclaim humanity's place in a rich, abundant, edible ecosystem.

Author : John Kallas
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781423616597

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Edible Wild Plants by John Kallas Pdf

The founder of Wild Food Adventures presents the definitive, fully illustrated guide to foraging and preparing wild edible greens. Beyond the confines of our well-tended vegetable gardens, there is a wide variety of fresh foods growing in our yards, neighborhoods, or local woods. All that’s needed to take advantage of this wild bounty is a little knowledge and a sense of adventure. In Edible Wild Plants, wild foods expert John Kallas covers easy-to-identify plants commonly found across North America. The extensive information on each plant includes a full pictorial guide, recipes, and more. This volume covers four types of wild greens: Foundation Greens: wild spinach, chickweed, mallow, and purslane Tart Greens: curlydock, sheep sorrel, and wood sorrel Pungent Greens: wild mustard, wintercress, garlic mustard, and shepherd’s purse Bitter Greens: dandelion, cat’s ear, sow thistle, and nipplewort

Author : Eric Toensmeier,Jonathan Bates
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781603584005

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Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier,Jonathan Bates Pdf

When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a "permaculture paradise" replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden's needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms. In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.

Author : Alana Wilcox,Christina Palassio,Jonny Dovercourt
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Développement durable
ISBN : 1552451941

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GreenTOpia by Alana Wilcox,Christina Palassio,Jonny Dovercourt Pdf

More trees. Hydrogen-fuelled cabs. Urbiology. A new model of taxation. Solar panels on big-box stores. The art of salvage. Composters for dog poo in city parks. Retrofitting our urban slabs. Gardening the Gardiner. Ravine City. What would make Toronto a greener place? In the third volume of the uTOpia series, dozens of imaginative Torontonians think big and small about sustainability. From suggestions for changes to our transit system and more mixed-use neighbourhoods to a tongue-in-cheek proposal for a painted line aroudn the city and a short comic book about Toronto in the year 2057, GreenTOpia challenges the city and its residents to rethink what it means to be green in a metropolis, and how to take their love of the city one green step further. Other pieces include an interview with Mayor David Miller and a breakdown of the ecological impact of our morning coffee. GreenTOpia features photos, maps and a 56 page green directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs promoting sustainability in the GTA.

Author : Kelly Kindscher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015012654540

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Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie by Kelly Kindscher Pdf

Provides information on identification and uses of edible prairie plants.

Author : Howard Akler
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1552451585

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The City Man by Howard Akler Pdf

"It's 1934, and Toronto is stalled in the Great Depression. Pickpocket Mona Kantor is scraping by on small change, while Eli Morenz, city reporter for the Daily Star, struggles to wring news stories out of the subdued metropolis. When a chance photo drives Eli into the Jewish underworld Mona inhabits, he finds he's stumbled onto the story of his life." - From the publisher.