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

Urban agricultural practices and processes

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]

xv, 333 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Foreword / Will Allen -- Section 1. Introduction and historical antecedents : 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 establishment of gardening programs and farmers markets by Grand Rapids women's clubs in the early twentieth century / Jayson Otto -- Section 2. Regulation : 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 -- Section 3. Production : 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 -- Section 4. Distribution : Food hubs: expanding local food to urban consumers / Becca B.R. Jablonski and Todd M. Schmit -- Chicago marketplaces: advancing access to healthy food / Anne Roubal and Alfonso Morales -- Section 5. COmmunity health and policy perspectives : 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.