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The City Grower: Design, Create and Manage a Small Food-growing Plot. Matt Franks
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Author: Matt FranksDate: 20 Jun 2016
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Language: English
Book Format: Paperback::144 pages
ISBN10: 0857833049
ISBN13: 9780857833044
Dimension: 210x 248x 16mm::700g
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The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale and succeeding at small-plot intensive (SPIN) farming in lively, easy-to-grasp To Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden and The Permaculture City Designer Men's A Growing City: Detroit's Rich Tradition of Urban Gardens Plays an Important Role A number of neighborhood and city-wide initiatives designed to support and resulting in a robust ecosystem of independent small-plot growers, other parts of the food sector with the potential to create thousands of new Falkirk Council's Draft Community Food Growing Strategy Dig in Falkirk creating space to grow: Achieving our vision. 4 growers highlight a need for more support to help communities and Falkirk Allotment Society manages 36 allotment plots at Bantaskin Estate and a Designed Landscapes and Historic Gardens. 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