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From: Farm the City

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The introduction indicates that this book is a guide for creating urban farms that produce significant amounts of food while employing people who would most benefit from full time, meaningful employment on paved or potentially contaminated urban land.

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Michael Ableman

Michael Ableman is the cofounder and director of Sole Food Street Farms and one of the early visionaries of the urban agriculture movement. Ableman has worked as a commercial organic farmer for the last 45 years. He is the founder of the nonprofit Center for Urban Agriculture, and has created high-profile urban farms in Watts and Goleta, California; and Vancouver, British Columbia. Ableman is the author of From the Good Earth (Abrams, 1993), On Good Land (Chronicle Books, 1998), Fields of Plenty (Chronicle Books, 2005), and Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier (Chelsea Green, 2016). For more information about Michael Ableman go to www.michaelableman.com or www.foxglovefarmbc.com For more information about Sole Food Street Farms, read Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier (Chelsea Green, 2016).