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City Farming - A How-to Guide to Growing Crops and Raising Livestock in Urban Spaces (Paperback)
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City Farming - A How-to Guide to Growing Crops and Raising Livestock in Urban Spaces (Paperback)
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Farming in cities and small spaces is becoming increasingly
popular, but it has its challenges. City Farming addresses the
problems the urban farmer might face and turns them into creative
solutions. It assists the new grower to gain expert understanding
of how to create a production urban farm, as well as helping
established farmers to troubleshoot and discover new ways to bring
their space into greater harmony and production. From the
perspective of a holistic gardener, growing plants and raising
livestock are covered as well as integrated approaches, which bring
together the whole farming system in a small space to produce high
yields with minimal energy and effort.The content is organised by
themes of importance to urban farmers - sun and heat, water usage,
seasonal production, spatial planning, soil quality and usage,
propagation and breeding, pests and diseases, farming under time
constraints, sustainability and community initiatives. These are
all discussed within the context of urban farming and include
common issues and strategies like microclimates in built-up areas,
natural and organic approaches, water harvesting, toxic land, roof
gardening, converting ornamental gardens to productive edible
gardens, municipal regulations, vertical gardening, aquaponics,
composting methods, livestock suitability in limited space,
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) schemes, permaculture in
small spaces, community gardens and trade & barter schemes.Each
chapter unfolds a piece the story of The Micro Farm Project that
provides an overview of the theme, and then discusses the crop and
livestock considerations relating to the theme of the chapter in
the form of the challenges they present and practical solutions to
the problems such as lack of space, high population density, poor
soil quality, planning restrictions etc. Case studies giving
examples of different methods used within urban farming from
different regions throughout the world are included.City Farming is
a beautifully illustrated source that can be valuable to both
beginners and more experienced urban farmers.
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