CARROT CITY’s collection of ideas promotes sustainable and healthy food production, and suggests dozens of ways to reintroduce urban agriculture to our cities. This book provides actionable examples of how to integrate local crops into dense urban neighborhoods and “food deserts” for cities and citizens accustomed only to their food arriving from hundreds or thousands of miles away. Even the simplest forms of local production offer enormous potential to better the food supply for the inhabitants of urban spaces by enhancing nutritional value, flavor, and freshness. The book also includes an extensive chapter highlighting products available for use at home, now. Focusing on the increasing need and desire to grow food within city limits as transportation costs rise, urban populations grow, and citizens become more attuned to nutrition in the face of an obesity epidemic, CARROT CITY explores the contributions of
architecture, landscape design, and urban design to the increasingly important movement of urban agriculture and empowers the reader to make small changes immediately. Read More
