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• Title:Change comes to dinner : how vertical farmers, urban growers, and other innovators are revolutionizing how america eats / Katherine Gustafson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gustafson, Katherine.
  
• Published/Created:New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2012.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TD195.F57 G87 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Food industry and trade--Environmental aspects--United States.
  Food--Environmental aspects--United States.
  Urban agriculture--United States.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:viii, 280 p. ; 21 cm.
  
• Summary:"A fascinating exploration of America's food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan's bestselling Omnivore's Dilemma Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets, organizations, businesses and institutions across America that are pushing for a more sustainable food system in America. Gustafson introduces food visionaries like Mark Lilly, who turned a school bus into a locally-sourced grocery store in Richmond, Virginia; Gayla Brockman, who organized a program to double the value of food stamps used at Kansas City, Missouri, farmers' markets; Myles Lewis and Josh Hottenstein, who started a business growing vegetables in shipping containers using little water and no soil; and Tony Geraci, who claimed unused land to create the Great Kids Farm, where Baltimore City public school students learn how to grow food and help Geraci decide what to order from local farmers for breakfast and lunch at the city schools. Change Comes to Dinner is a smart and engaging look into America's food revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
  "Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets, organizations, businesses and institutions across America that are pushing for a more sustainable food system in America. Gustafson introduces food visionaries like Mark Lilly, who turned a school bus into a locally-sourced grocery store in Richmond, Virginia; Gayla Brockman, who organized a program to double the value of food stamps used at Kansas City, Missouri, farmers' markets; Myles Lewis and Josh Hottenstein, who started a business growing vegetables in shipping containers using little water and no soil; and Tony Geraci, who claimed unused land to create the Great Kids Farm, where Baltimore City public school students learn how to grow food and help Geraci decide what to order from local farmers for breakfast and lunch at the city schools. Change Comes to Dinner is a smart and engaging look into America's food revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Local note:UBC Library has a copy donated by the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-277).
  
• ISBN:9780312577377 (pbk.)
  0312577370 (pbk.)
  9781466802414 (e-book)
  1466802413 (e-book)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 LOCAL IS AS LOCAL DOES
  ch. 1 School Bus Farm Market
  unusual small business brings farm-fresh to the city
  ch. 2 Locavore Montana
  local-food economy grows in Big Sky country
  ch. 3 Institutionalized
  biggest buyers flex their localizing muscle
  ch. 4 Cultivating the Internet
  Web connects growers and eaters
  pt. 2 GREEN THUMBS
  ch. 5 Advocating for Agriculture
  Determined organizers help new farmers succeed
  ch. 6 New Farmers in the Dell
  Training and outreach programs draw diversity to the fields
  ch. 7 Seeds of Learning
  Inspired educational efforts bring kids closer to their food
  ch. 8 Farming Their Futures
  Field-based learning prepares students for agricultural careers
  pt. 3 GROWING EMPOWERMENT
  ch. 9 Cultivating the Urban Jungle
  Advocates fight to bring food and fairness to inner cities
  ch. 10 To Market, to Market
  Incentives bring fresh food to the poor and income to local farmers
  ch. 11 Putting Down Roots
  Gardening programs offer a connection to community and place
  ch. 12 From Prison to Prep Cook
  Food production offers hope and opportunity
  pt. 4 HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?
  ch. 13 Organic Idyll
  Organic farms keep an alternative agricultural vision alive
  ch. 14 Farming In and Out of the Box
  New farming technologies try to redefine sustainability
  ch. 15 Surf & Turf
  Aquaponics and mobile slaughter offer humane, eco-friendly proteins
  ch. 16 Going Native
  Foodies, farmers, and desert dwellers promote diverse crop species.