City Farming – How-To Guide to Growing Crops and Raising Livestock in Urban Spaces

City Farming
328 Pages
ISBN 9781910455906

"City Farming: A How-to Guide to Growing Crops and Raising Livestock in Urban Spaces" is both the personal story of The Micro Farm Project and a compilation of anecdotes from a variety of urban farms around the country. It contains some of the best urban farming solutions in practice today and is the guidebook for starting or improving a city farm. Its pages illustrate the basics of how backyard farms produce food in the city. It also dives deeper, exploring ways that urban farmers are overcoming challenges, both big and small, to feed themselves and their communities, to nurture their neighborhoods and enhance the environment.

Kari Spencer

About Kari Spencer (Phoenix, Arizona Author)

Kari Spencer

Kari Spencer is an author, instructor, and long time advocate for the art of urban farming. She co-directs the organization Grow PHX. She also is the owner/operator of The Micro Farm Project, located in Phoenix, AZ. Growing food, homestead permaculture and backyard livestock are her way of life, and teaching is her passion.

Kari is the author of City Farming: How-to Guide to Growing Food and Raising Livestock in Urban Spaces. Information about the book and tips for urban farmers can be found at CityFarmingBook.com.

Kari takes a decidedly different view of what it means to grow and eat healthy, delicious food, born of experience and extensive knowledge as a master gardener, master farmer and agriculture instructor. Her practical, cheerful tutorials and tips for urban farmers (and aspiring gardeners,) can be found at TheMicroFarmProject.com and KariSpencer.com.

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