Ideal for those that want to change their paradigm about where to grow your garden. Great gift for the gardener with everything.

Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on edible garden design and community-building with a fresh perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step plan to help readers build fertile soil, raise their own food, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own “paradise gardens,” whether on a tiny city plot or a half acre of lawn. In Flores’s vision, lawns give way to gardens and gardens lead to stronger, healthier neighborhoods. Food Not Lawns collects the skills, tips, and hands-on instruction needed to turn the vision into reality.

This joyful manual inspires readers to apply the principles of the paradise garden – simplicity, resourcefulness, creativity, mindfulness, and community – to all aspects of life. Begin with a  few plants; find opportunities to grow in abandoned lots; create playful teaching gardens with neighborhood children; organize your new bounty into community meals. In Food Not Lawns, Flores show us how to reconnect to the earth and to our communities one garden at a time.