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Cities of farmers : urban agricultural practices and processes

Title

Cities of farmers : urban agricultural practices and processes / edited by Julie C. Dawson and Alfonso Morales.

Format

Book

Published

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016] ©2016

Description

xv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other contributors

Dawson, Julie, editor. Morales, Alfonso, 1961- editor.

Portion of title

Urban agricultural practices and processes

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Will Allen
• Section 1. Introduction and historical antecedents : Cities of farmers: problems, possibilities and processes of producing food in cities / Julie Dawson and Alfonso Morales
• Food from scratch for the zenith of the unsalted seas: creating a local food system in early 20th century Duluth, Minnesota / Randel D. Hanson
• Municipal housekeepers and the high cost of living: the establishment of gardening programs and farmers markets by Grand Rapids women's clubs in the early twentieth century / Jayson Otto
• Section 2. Regulation : Urban ag' in the 'burbs / Megan Horst, Catherine Brinkley, Kara Martin
• Cultivating in Cascadia: urban-agriculture policy and practice in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver / Nathan McClintock and Michael Simpson
• Urban agriculture: composting / Lauren Suerth
• Section 3. Production : Agroecology of urban farming / Erin Silva and Anne Pfeiffer
• Lessons from 'the bucket brigade': the role of urban gardening in Native American cultural continuance / Michèle Companion
• Foregrounding community-building in community food security: a case study of the New Brunswick community farmers market and Esperanza Garden / Laura Lawson, Luke Drake, and Nurgul Fitzgerald
• Fumbling for community in a Brooklyn community garden / Dory Thrasher
• Section 4. Distribution : Food hubs: expanding local food to urban consumers / Becca B.R. Jablonski and Todd M. Schmit
• Chicago marketplaces: advancing access to healthy food / Anne Roubal and Alfonso Morales
• Section 5. Community health and policy perspectives : The co-evolution of urban-agriculture practice, planning, and policy / Nevin Cohen and Katinka Wijsman
• Urban agriculture and health: what is known, what is possible? / Benjamin W. Chrisinger and Sheila Golden
• More than the sum of their parts: an exploration of the connective and facilitative functions of food policy councils / Lindsey Day Farnsworth
• Embedding food systems into the built environment / Janine de la Salle.

Subject headings

Urban agriculture.

ISBN

9781609384371 (paperback ; alkaline paper) 1609384377 (paperback ; alkaline paper) 9781609384388 (electronic book) 1609384385 (electronic book)