Food Not Lawns : How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community

from Chicken_Cat

Flores's book is much more than a blueprint for how to start and maintain a home garden; it's a manifesto on radical, eco-activist, egalitarian living. Part 'Foxfire', part 'Greenzine' in tone, this book could serve as an introduction to western radical culture for the uninitiated.

from wintergreens

A bit naive, but still fun reading. It is a great vision of front yards turned into shared community gardens, with no alarm clocks to be found. If you're a person with a mortgage, children to feed, or a 9-5 job, the tone may get annoying, but the overall message and information are good.

from Chicken_Cat

Flores's book is much more than a blueprint for how to start and maintain a home garden; it's a manifesto on radical, eco-activist, egalitarian living. Part 'Foxfire', part 'Greenzine' in tone, this book could serve as an introduction to western radical culture for the uninitiated.

from bunwat

I think whether you like this book depends a lot on what you are looking for going in. The author is a community activist whose central concern is convincing people to live more communally and sustainably. Its not a book about how to grow food in your neighborhood so much as it is a book about wh...

from Eric21

Food not Lawns was a fantastic, highly inspirational book. Highly recommended to anyone who has ever wanted to plant a garden or connect to the community as a whole.