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Author : David Tracey
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781550923896
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guerrilla Gardening written by David Tracey and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to greening cities -- with or without permission.
Author : Kenneth I. Helphand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Defiant Gardens written by Kenneth I. Helphand and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of wartime gardens documents how they humanize landscapes and experience, even under the direst conditions
Author : Richard Reynolds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408856395
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book On Guerrilla Gardening written by Richard Reynolds and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Guerrilla Gardening is an activist's call to arms to all citizens - green-fingered, green-thinking or curious - to join the revolution of guerrilla gardening: transforming public space into oases of colour and life. The enemy: neglect, apathy and the disintegration of community spirit. The arsenal: daring, a packet of seeds and a passionate commitment to social change. When Richard Reynolds first embarked on guerrilla gardening, growing flowers by moonlight outside his tower block, he had no idea it was part of a growing global movement committed to cultivating the potential in the land regardless of all obstacles. Charting the battles fought across thirty different countries and the revolutionary history of this subculture, On Guerrilla Gardening is an inspirational take on gardening in the 21st century.
Author : Amy Pennington
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570618011
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Apartment Gardening written by Amy Pennington and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget the 100-mile eat-local diet; try the 300-square-foot-diet &— grow squash on the windowsill, flowers in the planter box, or corn in a parking strip. Apartment Gardening details how to start a garden in the heart of the city. From building a window box to planting seeds in jars on the counter, every space is plantable, and this book reveals that the DIY future is now by providing hands-on, accessible advice. Amy Pennington's friendly voice paired with Kate Bingham-Burt's crafty illustrations make greener living an accessible reality, even if readers have only a few hundred square feet and two windowsills. Save money by planting the same things available at the grocery store, and create an eccentric garden right in the heart of any living space.
Author : Carolyn Steel
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446496090
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hungry City written by Carolyn Steel and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Cities cover just 2% of the world’s surface, but consume 75% of the world’s resources’. The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our everyday lives. Food shapes cities and through them it moulds us - along with the countryside that feeds us. Yet few of us are conscious of the process and we rarely stop to wonder how food reaches our plates. Hungry City examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries-old dilemma - one which holds the key to a host of current problems, from obesity and the inexorable rise of the supermarkets, to the destruction of the natural world. Original, inspiring and written with infectious enthusiasm and belief, Hungry City illuminates an issue that is fundamental to us all.
Author : Don Gayton
Publisher : Thistledown Press
ISBN 13 : 1897235356
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Interwoven Wild written by Don Gayton and published by Thistledown Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose In the Garden begins with an intimate look at Don Gayton in his BC garden with his dog Spud. Striking a series of premises - the first one being that gardening is essentially an irrational act - he logically and humorously begins to unravel the work and rituals of gardening. Engaging the reader with real gardening experiences, Gayton takes us on the microscopic steps of a gardening season and his interest in ecological succession. While commenting on the inter-reliance of species, types of soil, why weeds invade, how foreign planets appear, insects, disease and frost, he also speculates on gardeners -- their needs to landscape, to purchase specialized tools, to use chemicals, to emotionally bond with trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables. The "back story" of Interwoven Wild is much more universal. In it Gayton uses his experiences as a working field ecologist to place the garden in the larger context of our present natural world. By interlocking artists such as Monet and Caravaggio; writers such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Emily Dickenson, and Ann Dowden; park designer Frederick Law Olmstead, and landscape architect Christopher Alexander, Gayton reminds us that the garden has long held sway in the creative consciousness. His brief excursions into history, whether tracing the apple back to Kazakhstan, explaining how the tulip made its way from Turkey to Holland, or how the industrialist Baylock's introduction of a smuggled Asian cherry tree destroyed the BC cherry orchids fascinate as well as instruct. For Gayton, the garden is a primordial human urge -- a gift, celebration, and revelation buried in human psyche, marked in our collective mythologies --a kind of magical glue binding world culture, science and economics.
Author : Kelly D. Norris
Publisher : Cool Springs Press
ISBN 13 : 0760368201
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book New Naturalism written by Kelly D. Norris and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreate the wild beauty and thriving ecology of meadows, prairies, woodlands, and streamsides in your own garden. In New Naturalism, horticulturist and modern plantsman Kelly D. Norris shares his inspiring, ecologically sound vision for home gardens created with stylish yet naturalistic plantings that mimic the wild spaces we covet—far from the contrived, formal, high-maintenance plantings of the past. Through a basic introduction to plant biology and ecology, you’ll learn how to design and grow a lush, thriving home garden by harnessing the power of plant layers and palettes defined by nature, not humans. The next generation of home landscapes don’t consist of plants in a row, pruned to perfection and reliant on pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides to survive. Instead, today’s stunning landscapes convey nature’s inherent beauty. These gardens are imbued with romance and emotion, yet they have so much more to offer than their gorgeous aesthetics. Naturalistic garden designs, such as those featured in this groundbreaking new book, contribute to positive environmental change by increasing biodiversity, providing a refuge for wildlife, and reconnecting humans to nature. In the pages of New Naturalism you’ll find: Planting recipes for building meadows, prairies, and other grassland-inspired open plantings even in compact, urban settings Nature-inspired ways to upgrade existing foundation plantings, shrub beds, and flower borders to a wilder aesthetic while still managing the space Inspiration for taking sidewalk and driveway plantings and turning them into visually soft, welcoming spaces for humans and wildlife alike Ideas for turning shady landscapes into canopied retreats that celebrate nature Creative ways to make an ecologically vibrant garden in even the smallest of spaces New Naturalism approaches the planting beds around our homes as ecological systems. If properly designed and planted, these areas can support positive environmental change, increase plant and animal diversity, and create a more resilient space that’s less reliant on artificial inputs. And they do it all while looking beautiful and improving property values.
Author : Harriet Gross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315460831
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Psychology of Gardening written by Harriet Gross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many people love gardening? What does your garden say about you? What is guerrilla gardening? The Psychology of Gardening delves into the huge benefits that gardening can have on our health and emotional well-being, and how this could impact on the entire public health of a country. It also explores what our gardens can tell us about our personalities, how we can link gardening to mindfulness and restoration, and what motivates someone to become a professional gardener. With gardening being an ever popular pastime, The Psychology of Gardening provides a fascinating insight into our relationships with our gardens.
Author : Barbara Pallenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580631839
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guerrilla Gardening written by Barbara Pallenberg and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defintive guide to restoring a neglected, damaged garden explains how to work with the tough plant survivors of such devastation, offering detailed instructions on how to rescue castaways and cuttings and how to grow healthy plants to suit any climate from cuttings, leaves, dead bouquets, compost heaps, and more. Original. 15,000 first printing.
Author : Chiara Tornaghi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351811010
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Urban Gardening as Politics written by Chiara Tornaghi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the neoliberal agenda, this collection investigates and reflects on the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of these initiatives. It questions to what extent they address social inequality and injustice and interrogates them as forms of political agency that contest, transform and re-signify ‘the urban’. Claims for land access, the right to food, the social benefits of city greening/community conviviality, and insurgent forms of planning, are multiplying within policy, advocacy and academic literature; and are becoming increasingly manifested through the practice of urban gardening. These claims are symptomatic of the way issues of social reproduction intersect with the environment, as well as the fact that urban planning and the production of space remains a crucial point of an ever-evolving debate on equity and justice in the city. Amid a mushrooming over positive literature, this book explores the initiatives of urban gardening critically rather than apologetically. The contributors acknowledge that these initiatives are happening within neoliberal environments, which promote –among other things - urban competition, the dismantling of the welfare state, the erasure of public space and ongoing austerity. These initiatives, thus, can either be manifestation of new forms of solidarity, political agency and citizenship or new tools for enclosure, inequality and exclusion. In designing this book, the progressive stance of these initiatives has therefore been taken as a research question, rather than as an assumption. The result is a collection of chapters that explore potentials and limitations of political gardening as a practice to envision and implement a more sustainable and just city.
