Food Not Lawns

Food Not Lawns INW is based in Spokane and focused on "cultivating an edible future". Slow Foods, Spokane Community Gardens and Food Not Lawns INW have collaborated to bring you this website.  We are working together to offer information, facilitate communication, and otherwise act and effect local change regarding a variety of food and land related issues. These include food security; sustainable agriculture; GE's (genetically engineered) and commercial food production; environmental and social justice; farm workers and border issues; land access; water; reducing our ecological footprint; feeding the hungry; reclaiming space; and certainly, creating local food systems.

Browse this site for information on local food systems near you.  Throughout the site you'll find information about converting existing lawnspace into a food source.  Visit the community garden section to get information on gardens in your area.  Gardens are popping up all over the Inland Northwest  and we are working hard to keep our information up to date so you can stay in the loop.  If you have information on the local food scene that you would like to see on this website don't hesitate to contact us.  With the food not lawns integration we will be adding private vegetable gardens with information on how to tear out that lawnspace and make room for bountiful produce.

Food Not Lawns: The Book

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