Chelsea Green Publ. Co.

Food not lawns; how to turn your yard into a garden and your neighborhood into a community.

A permaculture designer based in Eugene, Oregon, Flores offers advice about home gardening, but emphasizes the context of a garden in the complex community ecosystem. For her, gardening is not a leisure activity, but the foundation of a movement to change the environment, economy, and culture. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

The revolution will not be microwaved; inside America's underground food movements.

This book surveys different forms of food activism in the United States while simultaneously criticizing the agribusiness and other corporate practices that have sparked these activist efforts. It describes efforts to get consumers to eat only local and seasonal foods, seed- saving as a form of resistance to agricultural intellectual property laws, labor and land movements, the slow food and raw food movements, food and alternative health practices, the use of marijuana and other prohibited plants in food, vegetarianism, and food foragers. Each chapter includes lists of organizational resources. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)