The City People’s Book of Raising Food

First printed in 1975, this wonderful book inspired City Farmer to take action in 1978 and start our work promoting urban agriculture. The authors, Helga and William Olkowski, visited us in Vancouver in those early years and introduced Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to many people in the city. They also motivated one of our founding directors to get her Ph.D. in entomology.

From the book cover: “Four years ago the Olkowskis decided they were tired of paying high urban prices for just-so food shipped in from who-knows-where. So they decided to start growing some of their own. By the end of the year they were raising all their own meat and vegetables right in the middle of the city of Berkeley by using every conceivable bit of space on their small city lot.”

Used copies of their book are for sale at Amazon linked here.