Food Not Lawns Book Release Party

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Who: Heather Coburn, Pc Designer, Writer, Activist.
What: Speaks about Urban Permaculture and her new book Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
When: Friday the 13th
Where: The City Repair Project 2122 SE Division St.

This Friday at 7 PM City Riparian: The Village Planting Convergence will welcome Heather Coburn share with us her vision for the future of urban permaculture. Additionally, she'll be facilitating hands-on activities, and to talking about her new book Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community. Following the talk, stick around to dance to the gypsy swing of the Underscore Orkestra!

Heather is* *permaculture designer, activist, writer, and more. She holds a BA degree in ecology, education, and the arts from Goddard College. She offers environmental landscape design and consultation services. After her book tour, she'll be exploring the use of low-tech performance arts to bridge cultural and economic gaps in environmental education.

ABOUT THE BOOK
(From the Chelsea Green
PublishersWebsite)

*Now Available!

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

The premier guide for ecological living in the city through paradise
gardening and shared resources by a co-founder of the original Food Not
Lawns grassroots gardening project in Eugene, OR. With a foreword by Toby
Hemenway and over 400 pages of text, enhanced by almost a hundred drawings
by Northwest artist Jackie Holmstrom, Food Not Lawns offers a theoretical
and practical handbook for ecological community transformation. *