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Change comes to dinner : how vertical farmers, urban growers, and other innovators are revolutionizing how America eats / Katherine Gustafson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 280 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780312577377 (pbk.)
  • 0312577370 (pbk.)
  • 9781466802414 (ebook)
  • 1466802413 (ebook)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TD195.F57 G87 2012
Other classification:
  • SOC055000 | CKB030000 | NAT011000
Online resources:
Contents:
School bus farm market -- Locavore Montana -- Institutionalized -- Cultivating the Internet -- Advocating for agriculture -- New farmers in the dell -- Seed of learning -- Farming their futures -- Cultivating the urban jungle -- To market, to market -- Putting down roots -- From prison to prep cook -- Organic idyll -- Farming in and out of the box -- Surf & turf -- Going native.
Summary: "A fascinating exploration of America's food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan's bestselling Omnivore's Dilemma Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets, organizations, businesses and institutions across America that are pushing for a more sustainable food system in America. Gustafson introduces food visionaries like Mark Lilly, who turned a school bus into a locally-sourced grocery store in Richmond, Virginia; Gayla Brockman, who organized a program to double the value of food stamps used at Kansas City, Missouri, farmers' markets; Myles Lewis and Josh Hottenstein, who started a business growing vegetables in shipping containers using little water and no soil; and Tony Geraci, who claimed unused land to create the Great Kids Farm, where Baltimore City public school students learn how to grow food and help Geraci decide what to order from local farmers for breakfast and lunch at the city schools. Change Comes to Dinner is a smart and engaging look into America's food revolution"--Summary: "Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets, organizations, businesses and institutions across America that are pushing for a more sustainable food system in America. Gustafson introduces food visionaries like Mark Lilly, who turned a school bus into a locally-sourced grocery store in Richmond, Virginia; Gayla Brockman, who organized a program to double the value of food stamps used at Kansas City, Missouri, farmers' markets; Myles Lewis and Josh Hottenstein, who started a business growing vegetables in shipping containers using little water and no soil; and Tony Geraci, who claimed unused land to create the Great Kids Farm, where Baltimore City public school students learn how to grow food and help Geraci decide what to order from local farmers for breakfast and lunch at the city schools. Change Comes to Dinner is a smart and engaging look into America's food revolution"--
List(s) this item appears in: Urban Farming
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves S494.5.U72 G87 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800139628
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277).

School bus farm market -- Locavore Montana -- Institutionalized -- Cultivating the Internet -- Advocating for agriculture -- New farmers in the dell -- Seed of learning -- Farming their futures -- Cultivating the urban jungle -- To market, to market -- Putting down roots -- From prison to prep cook -- Organic idyll -- Farming in and out of the box -- Surf & turf -- Going native.

"A fascinating exploration of America's food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan's bestselling Omnivore's Dilemma Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets, organizations, businesses and institutions across America that are pushing for a more sustainable food system in America. Gustafson introduces food visionaries like Mark Lilly, who turned a school bus into a locally-sourced grocery store in Richmond, Virginia; Gayla Brockman, who organized a program to double the value of food stamps used at Kansas City, Missouri, farmers' markets; Myles Lewis and Josh Hottenstein, who started a business growing vegetables in shipping containers using little water and no soil; and Tony Geraci, who claimed unused land to create the Great Kids Farm, where Baltimore City public school students learn how to grow food and help Geraci decide what to order from local farmers for breakfast and lunch at the city schools. Change Comes to Dinner is a smart and engaging look into America's food revolution"--

"Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets, organizations, businesses and institutions across America that are pushing for a more sustainable food system in America. Gustafson introduces food visionaries like Mark Lilly, who turned a school bus into a locally-sourced grocery store in Richmond, Virginia; Gayla Brockman, who organized a program to double the value of food stamps used at Kansas City, Missouri, farmers' markets; Myles Lewis and Josh Hottenstein, who started a business growing vegetables in shipping containers using little water and no soil; and Tony Geraci, who claimed unused land to create the Great Kids Farm, where Baltimore City public school students learn how to grow food and help Geraci decide what to order from local farmers for breakfast and lunch at the city schools. Change Comes to Dinner is a smart and engaging look into America's food revolution"--

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