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Advance Praise for Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn: The best ideas are usually the simplest ones. Fritz Haeg deserves a genius award for his wonderfully subversive plan. Instead of mowing your lawn, you should eat it. --Eric Schlosser, author, Fast Food Nation In the future, that quarter-acre next to the house may be as valuable as the house itself. This book reminds us that there are things better than lawns--more beautiful, more hopeful, more fun. --Bill McKibben, author, The Bill McKibben Reader Wherever I am, I'm always looking to see what's edible in the landscape. Every time I see the median strip in the street in front of Chez Panisse, I can't help but imagine it planted with waving rows of corn. Edible Estates describes wonderfully how a garden in front of every house can transform a neighborhood, sprouting the seeds not just of zucchini and tomatoes but of biodiversity, sustainability, and community. --Alice Waters, owner, Chez Panisse Restaurant Much like a homegrown tomato, Edible Estates is at once delectable, inspiring, and healthy. Read it: you'll never look at your front lawn the same way again. --Elizabeth Kolbert, author, Field notes from a Catastrophe
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About the Author
Fritz Haeg works between his architecture and design practice, Fritz Haeg Studio, the happenings and gatherings of Sundown Salon, the ecology initiatives of Gardenlabm which include Edible Estates, and his role as an educator. He has variously taught in architecture, design, and fine art programs at CalArts, Art Center College of Design, Parsons and the University of Southern California. In 2006, Haeg initiated Sundown Schoolhouse, an alternative educational environment based in his geodesic dome in Los Angeles. He has produced projects and exhibited work at Tate Modern, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Mass MoCA, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the Wattis Institute and the MAK Center, Los Angeles, among other institutions.
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Product details
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Metropolis Books (February 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933045744
ISBN-13: 978-1933045740
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
Average Customer Review:
2.9 out of 5 stars
11 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,152,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book is reassurance for those of us who have already turned away from American ideas of suburbia. The first half of the book is preaching the reasons to turn against the green monster outside your front door. But just as Pollan appeals to foodies who already attend farm markets, Edible Estates appeals to those of us who already garden. It is preaching to the choir. That said, it is a nice book that shows like-minded individuals participating in an agricultural art installation. The book is very similar to an exhibition catalog you might pick up at the museum as a memento from a favorite art exhibit. Not tons of depth but it gives some ideas. I particularly liked the tendency to develop the gardens in a non-linear fashion. Many vegetable gardeners never consider not growing in straight lines or overplanting to give a more lush, flower garden-like look. Won't make converts but enjoyable for the already initiated.
This book reads more like a book report, or maybe a master's thesis than a full-blown book. You can get through it in an hour or two, and although it is an interesting read, it's not something you'll turn to again and again. Honestly, I haven't thought about it since I read through it weeks ago. Thankfully it's not as mind-numbingly verbose as Slow Food Nation, but it also doesn't have the depth of, say, a Pollan book.
From idea to finish, Fred Haeg 'allows' you to dig up the lawn and USE it for beauty and food. He gives you insight as to what will the neighbors think. This is a teaching book giving help and ideas to today's'boomers' who still do not know or want to realize what it is like to NEED to grow your own food. EVERYONE has the space and CAN DO.
Honestly it was a bit of a let down for me. Nearly the first half of the book is dedicated to why lawns are bad and reads a bit like an attempt to convert the reader from front lawns to gardens. Since I already hate mowing my lawn, don't use chemicals or water it and have more ornamental front garden than lawn, it was preaching to the converted. To my thinking, people who use chemicals and yard services and water their lawns excessively aren't likely to become front yard organic vegetable gardeners. I was expecting more of a documentary on how the project yards were created and what resulted from them than what the author provided - more substance about the projects themselves. The publisher's description of the book presented a a nice idea but the end result was art and social commentary - which is fine although not terribly useful to me. I was also expecting a few more large pictures. The things that I did really like about the book were the design plans for the project gardens, addtional gardeners' reports and the tables in the back with planting dates for crops organized by USDA Hardiness Zone. I think that this would be a good book for people who have considered getting rid of their lawn but haven't for fear of public opinion as it does show a lot of public support, but they'll need to go to other resources to be successful in the garden.
This is a book about a group of people getting rid of their front lawns to grow food. Nothing about how to grow it or fertilized it very disappointed
I hate lawns, OK? Now that I have that out of the way, this book contains several essays from people like Michael Pollan and others on different way to think about your little slice of the American ideal.
I like the idea of growing more of our own produce in our yard, but I was somewhat disappointed in the quality of this book. Not disappointed in the condition mind you - it just wasn't what I was looking for.
I received this book for my birthday this weekend, and sat down and read it that afternoon. As a permaculture student and an artist, this book fit my approach just perfectly. There are many books that deal in nitty gritty details of why and how to grow your own food and reduce your consumption, etc., but I've long been frustrated at the few texts and individuals devoted to the PR necessary to communicate with those not already fanatical about the ideas of permaculture and home gardening. This book is a start. I would have liked to read about more of the planning and ideas behind the presentation of the gardens to the respective neighborhoods. I'm interested in ways of bridging the gap between those who are "green" and those who remain mainstream in their ideas about the environment. This book offers some examples of injecting new ideas into the mainstream manicured lawn set.
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