Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Escalante Community Garden Reading List

There are tons of books about community gardening/organic gardening, but we think these are some of the best... Happy Reading!
  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guides Community Gardening, Ellen Kirby and Elizabeth Peters, Editors
  • Burpee Complete Gardener: A Comprehensive, Up-To-Date, Fully Illustrated Reference For Gardeners At all Levels, Allan Armitage, Maureen Heffernan, Chela Kleiber, Holly H. Shimizu
  • City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America, Laura J. Lawson
  • Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food and Community, Thomas A. Lyson
  • Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty, Mark Winne
  • Community Nutrition, Nweze Nnakwe
  • Grace from the Garden: Changing the World One Garden at a Time, Debra Landwehr Engle
  • Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle’s Urban Community Gardens, Jeffrey Hou, Julie M. Johnson and Laura J. Lawson

  • Growing a Garden City: How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers and More are Transforming Themselves and their Neighborhoods through the Intersection of Local Agriculture and Community-and How You Can Too, Jeremy N. Smith