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swissmunicipal's review
4.0
This was a fairly quick and very informative read. It spends a lot of time talking about the logistics, political and human, of urban farming from a conversational angle - discussing the why behind moving our society more and more towards urban farming along with all of its benefits. Sprinkled in with all of that is some how-to information, but not as much as would be nice.
kellylynnthomas's review
2.0
This book is much more philosophical than its title had me thinking. There are some good ideas in here, but most of the space is taken up by arguments trying to convince you why urban agriculture is the savior of our future, and not so much by HOW to actually go about growing in the city.
And that in and of itself isn't bad, but when part of those arguments are made up of: "I've heard this thing is great but I haven't tried it myself so I dunno?" I have trouble accepting any of the info.
And that in and of itself isn't bad, but when part of those arguments are made up of: "I've heard this thing is great but I haven't tried it myself so I dunno?" I have trouble accepting any of the info.
kedawen's review
5.0
Learning about growing our own food seems more important than ever and this book has a really good summary of many approaches to doing just that. From growing herbs on your windowsill to encouraging neighbors to participate in a community garden or even an urban farm, this book has great information to get you started. I bought it soon after reading the library copy and look forward to using it to share my love for urban agriculture.
tvancort's review
I got the Kindle edition via NYPL, didn't get sucked in enough to finish it. Sure, I had other stuff distracting me, but mostly I think the problem was that I didn't run into anything exciting and new enough to keep me reading. I wasn't so turned off that I'm ruling out giving it another try, but... yeah.
Update, 11 March 2012: turns out I can keep library ebooks past their due date if I don't sync my phone or read where there's data service, mwa ha ha! So I finished this after all, and there were some more useful bits towards the end. Still, this is more of a how-to guide than anything else, and I really wanted more on the policy/politics, since I for one do not need to be sold on the value of urban food production. Anyway! Here's hoping I can finish taking notes on this bad girl in airplane mode :)
Update, 11 March 2012: turns out I can keep library ebooks past their due date if I don't sync my phone or read where there's data service, mwa ha ha! So I finished this after all, and there were some more useful bits towards the end. Still, this is more of a how-to guide than anything else, and I really wanted more on the policy/politics, since I for one do not need to be sold on the value of urban food production. Anyway! Here's hoping I can finish taking notes on this bad girl in airplane mode :)
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