Sowing Seeds in the City Ecosystem and Municipal Services
Urban agriculture has the potential to change our food systems, enhance habitat in our cities, and to morph urban areas into regions that maximize rather than disrupt ecosystem services. The potential impacts of urban agriculture on a range of ecosystem s
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owing Seeds in the City
Ecosystem and Municipal Services
Sowing Seeds in the City
Sally Brown • Kristen McIvor Elizabeth Hodges Snyder Editors
Sowing Seeds in the City Ecosystem and Municipal Services
Editors Sally Brown School of Environmental and Forest Sciences University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
Kristen McIvor Harvest Pierce County Pierce Conservation District Puyallup, WA, USA
Elizabeth Hodges Snyder Department of Health Sciences University of Alaska Anchorage Anchorage, AK, USA
ISBN 978-94-017-7451-2 ISBN 978-94-017-7453-6 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-7453-6
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Book I Part I “A lifetime of accomplishments of which the dirt knows none, only in death can one truly return Return the carrots, the apples and potatoes, The chickens, the cows, the fish and tomatoes.” –Poi Dog Pondering “Well I love that dirty water” –Standells Part II “Let me tell ya ‘bout the birds and the bees And the flowers and the trees” –Herbert Newman Well, you get the cherry, Jerry Now look, don’t be so picky, Mickey Cause everybody eats when they come to my house –Cab Calloway Part III On the roof’s the only place I know Where you just have to wish to make it so Let’s go up on the roof (Up on the roof) –Drifters
Preface
The two volumes of Sowing Seeds in the City were inspired by a National Academy of Science Keck Foundation (NAKFI) conference on ecosystem services (http:// www.keckfutures.org/conferences/ecosystem-services_podcast_home.html). Each attendee was asked to select an area of inquiry from a potential list of nine topics. At the meeting we worked in groups to come up with innovative solutions
