Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community

For Flores, ""practicing ecological living is a deeply subversive act,"" and while most gardening books do not include warnings that COINTELPRO ""can and will...rape you,"" it is only because most gardening books do not encourage ""guerilla gardening"" after describing the basics of garden planning and pruning. More advanced topics range from integrating barnyard birds into a garden to getting more mileage out of the home water cycle to the benefits of a balanced insect population. The illustrations are amusing as well as helpful, and though the index is not extensive, the book, overall, is a much better read than the average gardening book, both in terms of range and entertainment value.