The urban agriculture revolution

In search of alternatives to the agro-industrial system, so harmful to health and the environment, men and women from around the world have been mobilizing for fifteen years to bring food production and distribution back to the heart of our cities. Combining ancestral agricultural know-how and ecological innovations, more and more of them are launching local organic production. A little chaotic, totally free and spontaneously decentralized, it's the urban agriculture revolution!
In this captivating account, which reads like a travel diary, Jennifer Cockrall-King meets the movement's protagonists and bears witness to the proliferation of initiatives underway in a dozen cities in Europe and North America, as well as in Cuba. Tomato and herb plants on balconies, chicken coops in backyards, beehives on rooftops, urban vineyards, community gardens, intensive market gardening in commercial greenhouses, food forests, aquaponics, vertical farms: these practices, respectful of the Earth, suggest a major shift not only in the way we eat, but also in our very conception of urban space.
Let's stop being mere consumers of food and grow our own food, at least in part! This book, enriched with a new chapter on Montreal by Éric Duchemin and Jean-Philippe Vermette, will provide sources of inspiration and motivation to all those who care about their diet and who wish to reconnect with their environment. As one urban grower interviewed by Jennifer Cockrall-King says: "This is [...] only the tip of the iceberg!"