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The Louisiana Urban Gardener

Author : Kathryn K. Fontenot

Publisher : LSU Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 10,41 MB

Release : 2017-08-16

Category : Gardening

ISBN : 0807166812

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The Louisiana Urban Gardener offers novice gardeners all the tools they need to grow herbs and vegetables at home. Covering the basics for those who have been unsuccessful in previous attempts at gardening, Kathryn Fontenot provides simply instructions on producing plants that are well suited to Louisiana’s climate. Fontenot argues that anyone from a toddler to a retiree can be a gardener, whether the garden consists of large raised beds in a backyard or a single herb plant in a kitchen window; and her book lays out crucial tips and facts for Louisiana gardeners from all walks of life.



Louisiana Gardener's Guide

Author : Dan Gill

Publisher : Cool Springs Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,27 MB

Release : 2002-10-01

Category : Gardening

ISBN : 9781930604865

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Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value. This book contains easy-to-use advice on the top landscape plant choices. It also recommends specific varieties, and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for the best plants.



Breaking Through Concrete

Author : David Hanson

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 40,17 MB

Release : 2012-01-30

Category : Cooking

ISBN : 0520270541

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"There’s a conviction among many sustainable agriculture advocates that the best way to move agriculture forward is to look back. The hope is to return to an exalted era in agriculture, to the kind of rural scene fit for a Rockwell painting or a Shaker Village—to food grown the old fashioned way. Breaking Through Concrete is not that, which is exactly the point. This ode to urban farming is not nostalgic (those are skyscrapers in the background, not silos), but instructive. It's a beautiful, gritty and very real portrait of the possibilities for the future of food." — Dan Barber, Executive Chef & Co-owner of Blue Hill "A road map to the future of America. A blueprint of possibilities. A book full of remarkable stories of neighborhood visionaries, stories of people who grow community in their gardens. Where others see trouble, they see food and hope." —NPR's Kitchen Sisters "Finally, a book on the full continuum of urban agriculture in America, replete with inspiring images of the people and places behind today's city-grown food. Hanson and Marty tell these stories with such admiration for their subjects you'll want to bestow hero status to city farmers." —Darrin Nordahl, author of Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture “Breaking Through Concrete will satisfy readers hungry for a broad perspective on urban agriculture. The beautiful stories and photographs of successful programs throughout North America, combined with practical ‘how to’ guides, provides a valued resource for practitioners, advocates, scholars, and gardeners.” —Laura Lawson, author of City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America



The Complete Urban Gardener

Author : Joan Puma

Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers

Page : 428 pages

File Size : 35,68 MB

Release : 1985

Category : Gardening

ISBN : 9780060911065

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A Recipe for Gentrification

Author : Alison Hope Alkon

Publisher : NYU Press

Page : 380 pages

File Size : 18,23 MB

Release : 2020-07-14

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1479811378

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Honorable Mention, 2021 Edited Collection Book Award, given by the Association for the Study of Food and Society How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. A Recipe for Gentrification explores this widespread phenomenon, showing the ways in which food and gentrification are deeply—and, at times, controversially—intertwined. Contributors provide an inside look at gentrification in different cities, from major hubs like New York and Los Angeles to smaller cities like Cleveland and Durham. They examine a wide range of food enterprises—including grocery stores, restaurants, community gardens, and farmers’ markets—to provide up-to-date perspectives on why gentrification takes place, and how communities use food to push back against displacement. Ultimately, they unpack the consequences for vulnerable people and neighborhoods. A Recipe for Gentrification highlights how the everyday practices of growing, purchasing and eating food reflect the rapid—and contentious—changes taking place in American cities in the twenty-first century.





DK USA

Author : DK Travel

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 1260 pages

File Size : 17,21 MB

Release : 2024-07-23

Category : Travel

ISBN : 0593957210

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Get closer to the USA with DK Eyewitness Seeing the sights of New York City. Taking a road trip along Route 66. Epic adventures in the Grand Canyon. The USA offers enough bucket list experiences to fill a lifetime. Whatever your dream trip involves, this DK Eyewitness travel guide is the perfect companion. Our updated guide brings the USA to life, transporting you there as no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations, which take you inside the country's buildings and neighborhoods. You'll discover: Our pick of the USA's must-sees and top experiences Beautiful photography and detailed illustrations, taking you to the heart of the USA The best spots to eat, drink, shop and stay Detailed maps and walks that make navigating the country easy Easy-to-follow itineraries Expert advice: get ready, get around and stay safe Color-coded chapters to each part of the USA A lightweight format, so you can take it with you wherever you go Sticking to one state? Look out for our DK Eyewitness guides to Alaska, California, Hawaii, Florida, and many more. DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.



Cooperatives in New Orleans

Author : Anne Gessler

Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi

Page : 287 pages

File Size : 29,51 MB

Release : 2020-06-04

Category : History

ISBN : 1496827600

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Cooperatives have been central to the development of New Orleans. Anne Gessler asserts that local cooperatives have reshaped its built environment by changing where people interact and with whom, helping them collapse social hierarchies and envision new political systems. Gessler tracks many neighborhood cooperatives, spanning from the 1890s to the present, whose alliances with union, consumer, and social justice activists animated successive generations of regional networks and stimulated urban growth in New Orleans. Studying alternative forms of social organization within the city’s multiple integrated spaces, women, people of color, and laborers blended neighborhood-based African, Caribbean, and European communal activism with international cooperative principles to democratize exploitative systems of consumption, production, and exchange. From utopian socialist workers’ unions and Rochdale grocery stores to black liberationist theater collectives and community gardens, these cooperative entities integrated marginalized residents into democratic governance while equally distributing profits among members. Besides economic development, neighborhood cooperatives participated in heady debates over urban land use, applying egalitarian cooperative principles to modernize New Orleans’s crumbling infrastructure, monopolistic food distribution systems, and spotty welfare programs. As Gessler indicates, cooperative activists deployed street-level subsistence tactics to mobilize continual waves of ordinary people seizing control over mainstream economic and political institutions.



Organic Gardening

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Page : 80 pages

File Size : 28,32 MB

Release : 2008-05

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Organic Gardening magazine inspires and empowers readers with trusted information about how to grow the freshest, most healthful food, create a beautiful, safe haven around their homes, use our natural resources wisely, and care for the environment in all aspects of their lives.



The Garden District of New Orleans

Author : Jim Fraiser

Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 32,42 MB

Release : 2012-03-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1617032786

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The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately white-columned Greek Revival mansions and double-galleried Italianate houses decorated with lacy cast iron. Photographer West Freeman evokes the romance of this elegant neighborhood with lovely images of private homes, dazzling gardens, and public structures. Author Jim Fraiser vividly details the historical significance and architectural styles of more than a hundred structures and chronicles both the political and cultural evolution of the neighborhood. The Garden District, unlike the French Quarter, evolved under the auspices of predominantly Anglo-American architects hired by newly arriving, and newly wealthy, Americans. Beyond these wealthy homeowners, the Garden District also offers a startlingly diverse and freewheeling history teeming with African American slaves, free men and women of color, French, Italians, Germans, Jews, and Irish, all of whom helped fashion it into one of America's first suburbs and most extraordinary neighborhoods. Fraiser animates the Garden District's story with such notables as Mark Twain; Jefferson Davis; occupying Union general Benjamin Butler; flamboyant steamboat captain Thomas Leathers; crusading Reverend Theodore Clapp; Confederate generals Jubal Early and Leonidas Polk; jazzmen Joe "King" Oliver and Nate "Kid" Ory; champion pugilist John L. Sullivan; local authors Grace King, George Washington Cable, and Anne Rice; Mayor Joseph Shakespeare; architects Henry Howard, Lewis Reynolds, and Thomas Sully; cotton magnate Henry S. Buckner; and Louisiana Lottery co-founder John A. Morris. In words and photographs, Fraiser and Freeman explore the unexpected evolution of this district and reveal how war, plagues, politics, religion, cultural conflict, and architectural innovation shaped the incomparable Garden District.