Gardening Your Front Yard

The Memoir Spot

A snapshot review of a book related to the Non-fiction Feature

Also in this Monthly Bulletin:
The Non-fiction Feature: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Product Spot: Community Supported Agriculture

The Pithy Take

The Omnivore’s Dilemma examines how we can eat, plant, and grow better, and Tara Nolan’s Gardening Your Front Yard offers way to experiment with those concepts at home–from very simple (where should you put these tomato plants?) to more complex (creating pollinator palaces)–for all types of living.

Small apartments, mid-size condos, large front yards, houses that can manage permeable paving; Nolan covers it all, and explains a wide breadth of options that beginner or experienced growers can utilize to grow food, welcome bees and other pollinators, decrease the impact of extreme downpours, and be flexible. The front yard is a pliable space, and she urges us to use it creatively and practically, for the good of ourselves and our world.

Both urban and suburban properties can often present a challenge to green thumbs who are longing to grow edible plants…Sometimes the front yard happens to be a prime location for growing food because that’s the area that gets the most sun.