Public Produce Cultivating Our Parks, Plazas, and Streets for Healthier Cities /

• Main Author: Nordahl, Darrin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2014.
• Subjects: Environment.; Public policy.; Agriculture.; Environment, general.; Public Policy.

Why plant trees that only provide shade when they could yield fruit as well? Why not take advantage of sunny patches at the outskirts of parking lots to grow carrots and strawberries, free for the harvesting? The idea that public land could be used creatively to grow fresh food for local citizens wa...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Food Security
• 2: The Cost of Healthy Calories
• 3: Public Space, Public Officials, Public Policy
• 4: To Glean and Forage in the City
• 5: Maintenance and Aesthetics
• 6: Food Literacy
• Conclusion: Community Health and Prosperity.