Год выпуска: 2010
Автор: Manny Howard
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Страниц: 277
ISBN: 1416585168
Описание For seven months, Manny Howarda??a lifelong urbanitea??woke up every morning and ventured into his eight-hundred-square-foot backyard to maintain the first farm in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in generations. His goal was simple: to subsist on what he could produce on this farm, and only this farm, for at least a month. The project came at a time in Mannya??s life when he most needed ita??even if his family, and especially his wife, seemingly did not. But a farmera??s life, he discovereda??after a string of catastrophes, including a tornado, countless animal deaths (natural, accidental, and inflicted), and even a severed fingera??is not an easy one. And it can be just as hard on those he shares it with. Mannya??s James Beard Foundation Awarda??winning New York magazine cover storya??the impetus for this projecta??began as an assessment of the locavore movement. We now think more about what we eat than ever before, buying organic for our health and local for the environment, often making those... |
