This is a sort of taster book for urban food production, if that makes sense. It showcases over thirty urban farmers along the west coast of North America - primarily from San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver - and the different means they use to farm what are often very small plots. This isn't a long book, so the profiles are brief and rely heavily on photographs, but its biggest strength is how it argues the case for accessibility: that even people who live in a city can produce some of their own food, and find pleasure in doing so. No argument there! 

The most interesting profiles, for me, were the mushroom farmer and the group of "guerilla grafters" adapting ornamental city trees to produce fruit. I would have liked to see a little more of this sort of variety in the farming subject matter - as I read through the book, it felt as if a lot of the profiles related to chickens and goats. Now my sister and I had pet goats as children, and that same sister did keep chickens at one point, and I like both even if I am vegetarian... but the continued focus on these two animals did start to feel quite repetitive. That invitation to accessibility might have been more effective if a broader range of profiles had been attempted, I think.