Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
by Heather Coburn Flores
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Author: Heather Coburn FloresEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-01
ISBN: 193339207X
Number of pages: 344
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Book Reviews of Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
Book Review: A poor how-to guide
Summary: 2 Stars
Having recently purchased and read 3 books on urban and community gardening, it is easy to state that this book is the poorest of the 3. To sum up the difference quickly: the primary tone and goal of the book is activism and not actual gardening.
However, it also is not a very good activism book as it shows the anger and frustration of the writer first and foremost. For a book on building communities, it quickly alienates and attacks people, corporations, government, etc.
There are many pieces of information that have value within the pages, but the content is commonly far too general. The tone and style lend toward a constant introduction with vague generalities then followed by a quick picture or chart of detailed information with little further in-depth reference to it.
There are few personal stories of success or of how the methods included were utilized by the author. It is a book that reads like someone talking at you vs. talking with you. Hardly conversational, it reads like a manifesto vs. today's society.
There is much to change about our methods of food production today, but this book starts primarily by trying to make its reader angry and turning them to the cause at hand. From my perspective, less than 20% of the book had value. It isn't useless, but the writing style, the content and the apparent goal of the book do not serve the subject well.
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