City Farming: Adventures in Urban Food Growing, by Lorraine Johnson, GreyStone; is reviewed by Sherry A. Firing. Sherry is a Toronto artist and gardener.  

Sherry details the important parts of the book and encourages readers to find out how impossibilities are made possible in Johnson’s book, as well as how to plant your dreams and watch them grow. She brings up Johnson’s discussion of eating local in opposition to global, and how Johnson also talks about faults in our food system and profit of whole food-growing movement to readers.  She walks us through Johnson’s experiences in gardens on rooftops, balconies and growing gardens in schools.

Posted in Globe and Mail Jun. 28, 2010. Click on the link to find more.