Title & Author:

Edible estates : attack on the front lawn / with texts by Will Allen [and others].

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

New York : Metropolis Books, ©2010.

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
"A project by Fritz Haeg."
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Fritz Haeg -- Beauty and the lawn: a break with tradition / Diana Balmori -- Stories from the front yard : Full-frontal gardening / Fritz Haeg ; Growing power: Milwaukee's urban farm / Will Allen ; Why mow? The case against law / Michael Pollan ; The green grid / Lesley Stern ; My house in the garden / Rosalind Creasy -- The edible estates regional prototype gardens : About the edible estates gardens ; Garden #1: Salina, Kansas / Stan Cox ; Garden #2: Lakewood, California / Michael Foti ; Garden #3: Maplewood, New Jersey / Michelle Christman ; Garden #4: London, England / Carole Wright ; Garden #5: Austin, Texas / Residents of Sierra Ridge Apartments ; Garden #6: Baltimore, Maryland / Clarence Ridgley ; Garden #7: La Cañada Flintridge / Susan Fuelling, Laurie Hopkins, and Dale Freyberger ; Garden #8: New York, New York / Eric W. Sanderson -- Reports from coast to coast : Zone 10: Los Angeles, California / Lisa Anne Auerbach and Louis Marchesano ; Zone 10: Pasadena, California / Christopher Brandow ; Zone 9: Sacramento, California / Beth Olagues ; Zone 8: Austin, Texas / Justin Burch; J. Muzacz ; Zone 7: Narbeth, Pennsylvania / Leah Swann ; Zone 7: Richmond, Virginia / Chris Edwards ; Zone 6: Needham, Massachusetts / Dorothy Stark ; Zone 5: Chicago, Illinois / Barbara Cooper ; Zone 4: Montpelier, Vermont / Glenn Scherer and the Apple Corps ; Regional planting calendars -- Food for thought and action : Statistics ; Resources.

Summary:

"This book documents the eight Edible Estates regional prototype gardens that [author] has planted in California, Kansas, Texas, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and England, and includes personal accounts from the homeowner-gardeners about the pleasures and challenges of publicly growing food where they live. Ten "Reports from Coast to Coast" tell the stories of others who have planted their own edible front yards in towns and cities across the country."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9781935202127
193520212X
9781935202134
1935202138

Subject:

Edible landscaping.
Lawns.
Gardening.
Aménagement paysager comestible.
Pelouses.
Jardinage.
gardening.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Added entries:

Allen, Will, 1949-
Haeg, Fritz.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266805
Call No.: BIB 198820
Status: Available