Urban Farming, 2nd Edition: Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World (CompanionHouse Books) Comprehensive Guide to Urban Agriculture for Self-Sufficiency

Your go-to reference to the urban farm movement!

It doesn't take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Thanks to the burgeoning sustainable-living and homesteading movement, you don't have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food.

Urban Farming, 2nd Edition walks every city and suburban dweller down the path of self-sufficiency. It offers practical advice and inspiration for gardening and farming from a high-rise apartment, participating in a community garden, vertical farming, and converting terraces and other small city spaces into fruitful, vegetable-full real estate.

This comprehensive guide about urban food growing will answer every up-and-coming urban farmer's questions about how, what, where and why—a green book for the dedicated citizen seeking to reduce their carbon footprint and grocery bill.

Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Home & Garden from the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Urban Farming provides portraits of successful urban farmers, DIY projects for container gardening, instructions for creating a garden calendar, recommendations for the most foolproof multi-zone plants, plans for companion gardening, time-saving advice about planting, seed starting, and harvesting, city-hall survival tips for navigating your town's ordinances, zone maps, and an extensive resources section.

This well-written, information-packed 416-page text makes the argument that urban agriculture is not just a hot media topic and trendy lifestyle choice—it is actually critical for human survival! This updated second edition examines how urban farming is being implemented in the United States today, in addition to sections on soil, vegetable crops, perennials, urban livestock from chickens and rabbits to fish, bees, and goats, and more details to support sustainable abundance from your urban garden.

Author Thomas Fox is a graduate of Fordham University and Fordham University School of Law. An early experience working at Hargrave Vineyard (now Castello di Borghese), Long Island's pioneer winery, awakened in him an appreciation of the shared health of plants, animals, humans, and ecosystems. A former research editor at Reader's Digest, Fox has been published in The Washington Post, Wine Enthusiast, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere. Fox lives with his family in New Jersey, where he is a passionate gardener and sometime urban farmer.

If you're interested in farming in urban spaces, Urban Farming is the book for you!

"Fortunately [Urban Farming] is written for grown-ups. It considers politics and history as well as how-to."
—Kirkus Reviews blog

"...a new encyclopedic guide to urban food growing. It contains practical lists of how to build urban gardens as well as growing advice."
—Jennifer Cockrall-King, author of Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution

"Urban Farming provides both practical advice and inspiration. Whether you've got a rooftop or a big suburban yard, you'll be motived to get out your shovel."
—Erik Knutzen, co-author of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World

"Urban Farming is a fantastic resource... Its detailed, readable text and beautiful photographs will make it an indispensable asset to the urban farming movement."
—Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew, authors of Toolbox for Sustainable City Living

"...this book looks like a textbook and reads like a novel.... If I were to teach a class on urban farming...this is the book I'd use."
—Pattie Baker, FoodShed Planet

Thomas Fox is a graduate of Fordham University and Fordham University School of Law. An early experience working at Hargrave Vineyard (now Castello di Borghese), Long Island's pioneer winery, awakened in him an appreciation of the shared health of plants, animals, humans, and ecosystems. A former research editor at Reader's Digest, Fox has been published in The Washington Post, Wine Enthusiast, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere. Fox lives with his family in New Jersey, where he is a passionate gardener and sometime urban farmer.