Food Gardens for a Changing World

Suitable for researchers and students in food systems, environmental studies, agroecology, horticulture, urban geography, sociology, climate change, and urban planning.

We are facing worldwide climatic, environmental and social changes, and food gardens are one increasingly popular strategy being explored to address these impacts. This book presents the basic biological, ecological and social concepts related to food gardening, and how to use those to address the changes we are facing.Food gardening is becoming increasingly popular, as people look for new ways to live more sustainably and minimize harm to the environment. This book addresses the most pressing challenges facing food gardening in the 21st century - worldwide changes in climate, the environment, natural resources, and communities - and the basic biological, ecological and social concepts which influence our understanding. Examples throughout the text demonstrate how gardeners can use these theories to their advantage.