Food Not Lawns - Cascadia Food Not Lawns

Food Not Lawns is turning Yards into Gardens and Neighborhoods into Communities around the World! We envison a thriving human ecology, and embrace theories and techniques derived from permaculture, kinship gardening, ecological design, and biodynamics. We offer educational, organizational, and hands-on services, such as garden design, events organizing, writing, research, and interactive community workshops. We specialize in lawn-tossing and community seed swaps!

January 31, 2009 International Seed Swap Day of Action

January 31, 2009 is International Seed Swap Day. Join us as we organize an Internatonal Day of Action to unite seedsavers around the globe toward food security and sustainable living! Contact seedswap (at) foodnotlawns (dot) com and we will help you organize a seed swap in your neighborhood.

Food Not Lawns can come to your town and help you start a local chapter! Contact us or check back for updates and keep your eyes open for the launch of our new site, www.foodnotlawns.net, which will serve as the communication hub for Food Not Lawns chapters and seed swap events worldwide! Heather Flores Food Not Lawns Tour Schedule 2008

June 1 San Francisco. Slideshow and Permaculture Gardening Workshop at Garden for the Environment.

July 26-27 Bay Area Permaculture Convergence. Sonoma.

October 8-11 Santa Barbara. Fairview Gardens. Slideshow and 3-day intensive.

November 7 Weston A. Price Foundation’s Wise Traditions conference. Booksigning

January 31, 2009 International Seed Swap Day of Action! Get Involved! Grow Stuff! Organize!!

This website is under construction. Thank you for your patience. Bookmark us and come back for lots of new and exciting articles and photos!

Links to interviews with author/activist/gardener Heather Coburn Flores

Interview on Eco-Talk radio, February 2007

Two interviews with Scott Dick on the Tasty Planet show

On Portland Indymedia web radio.

Ongoing Classes in Eugene with the Institute of Contemporary Ethnobotany

Check out these educational opportunities in and around Eugene.

Click here for the current I.C.E. schedule.

www.chelseagreen.com

Buy this Book! Read it! Grow Stuff!

Food Not Lawns, How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community, by Heather Coburn Flores.

Food Not Lawns is a theoretical and practical handbook for ecological community transformation and the premier guide for ecological living in the city through paradise gardening and shared resources. Written by Heather Flores, co-founder of the original Food Not Lawns grassroots gardening project in Eugene, OR. Foreword by Toby Hemenway, illustrated by Jackie Holmstrom and Bonnie Abzugg. (Chelsea Green, 2006, 344 p.) ISBN 1-933392-07-X

To buy the book, click on the link or visit www.chelseagreen.com


What Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry says about Food Not Lawns (the book): “In a time of so much hopelessness this book reminds us that there really is so much we can do. I encourage everyone seeking peace and well being to dig into this rich loam of information. It will inspire you to grow food not lawns.”	And Michael Ableman: “Food Not Lawns provides a road map for ecological and social literacy in our own backyards and neighborhoods. A quiet revolution is taking place across the country centered on small plots in urban and suburban areas where food is being produced, jobs grown, and real community developed. This timely book serves as an important guide, providing a source of both information and inspiration for one of the most hopeful and exciting movements of our time.”	And Herbalist author Susun Weed: "Food Not Lawns is radical (rooted), subversive (underground), and seeded throughout with treasures that will sprout into savory, beautiful flowers. Don't just buy this book: Read it. Don't just read this book: Do it. Grow a garden. And let the weeds grow; they're good medicine."

Stuff to Read

Click on the articles below to read about our work...
Don't be Wasted on Grass! Lawns to Gardens!
The Five Precepts of Peace; Using Permaculture to Make Peace Real
What if I Don't Have a Lawn? Urban Land & Permaculture Design
Ten Things We Can do to Save Water
Finding Work that Works
Water: You Can't Live Without It!
Peace Through Permaculture
A Conversation on Biodynamics
Zone Zero: Permaculture Starts with Yourself
FOOD NOT LAWNS! Can you dig it!?!?
Cities to Gardens
How to Organize a Seed Swap
Introduction to Kinship Gardening
Why Kinship Gardening?
The Significance of Kinship Gardening to Permaculture

On permission to reprint articles and photos from this website:

Some recent discussions around academic integrity in the activist community call for a clarification:
We are happy to share our seeds, our writing, and anything else with any and all who share our passion for earth-care and community building. We prefer to give seeds away than to sell them, and are dedicated to increasing access to permaculture and organic living. Thus, we welcome the "unauthorized" use of any of the documents here. You are welcome to republish them on your web page, copy them to a print document, and distribute them at will. HOWEVER, we do ask that full credit for the author and a link to this website always be included. The articles here were written by several different people, and each is credited accordingly. Excerpts from the book, "Food Not Lawns," are copyright protected by the publisher, but nobody is going to give you a hard time for a little excerpt, as long as it is credited. That way, if people like the writing, they know where to go for more! If you would like one of us to write an original article for your publication, please contact us at collective (at) foodnotlawns `dot` com.

Other Food Not Lawns Groups

Claremont Food Not Lawns totally shreds! Grass, that is. They had their first annual seed swap in February, and did their first lawn ripping March 9, with a volunteer work party of 45 people!

Tristate Food Not Lawns was founded to help bring Permaculture practice and philosophy into the communities of the New York metropolitan area. They provide the local community with opportunities for hands-on experience and training in skills for the Permaculture designer. www.tristatefoodnotlawns.org

Arcata Food Not Lawns, a.k.a. Wild Urban Gardeners, promotes depaving and lawn conversions, operates a tool library, and helps to publish Culture Change magazine. Excellent site with lots of links. www.culturechange.org/food_not_lawns.html

Bellingham Food Not Lawns is focused on helping their local community become more sustainable by restoring abused and unused land into organic gardens. Contact foodnotlawns (at) gmail.com.

Bisbee Food Not Lawns is the newest chapter, hosting workshops and work parties to beautify and unite this small Arizona town. www.foodnotlawnsbisbee.org.

Cascadia Food Not Lawns is focused on promoting peace and sustainability through ecological design, shared resources, and creative community interaction. www.foodnotlawns.com.

Montreal Food Not Lawns publishes a regular ‘zine, and their website has tons of great information about food politics, genetic engineering and much more. www.tao.ca/~kev.

St. Cloud Food Not Lawns is building local food security through networking with local farmers and growing healthy food. Their website has a nice photo album. www.localharvest.org.

St. Pete Food Not Lawns is promoting urban sustainability by encouraging and assisting in growing food. They apply environmental and anarchist principles including sustainability, reuse, low consumption, non-hierarchy, mutual-aid, community, consensus decision making, and autonomy. http://stpetefnl.cjb.net.

San Diego Food Not Lawns this newest chapter seems to be doing good work. They hosted a regional conference and are putting together a nice website with several interesting articles. www.sdfoodnotlawns.com