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

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 work of Grand Rapids women's clubs to establish gardening programs and farmers markets as public services in early twentieth century Grand Rapids / Jayson Otto -- 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 -- 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 -- Food hubs: expanding local food to urban consumers / Becca B.R. Jablonski and Todd M. Schmit -- Chicago marketplaces / Anne Roubal and Alfonso Morales -- 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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Urban agriculture.
Urban agriculture. (OCoLC)fst01162356
Added Author Dawson, Julie, editor.
Morales, Alfonso, 1961- editor.
Related To Print version: Cities of farmers. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016] 9781609384371 (DLC) 2016010366 (OCoLC)944956439
ISBN 9781609384388 (electronic bk.)
1609384385 (electronic bk.)
9781609384371
1609384377
OCLC # jst9781609384388
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