CHAPTER 1: SYDNEY'S 'INVISIBLE' FARMERS -- Sydney's Market Gardens: A Cultural Economy of Farming on the Fringe -- The History of CALD market gardeners in Sydney -- Re-visioning the City from the Edge: Cultural Complexity and Urban Agriculture -- Speaking from the Fringe -- Recognition: Determining the efficacy and relevance of prevailing preservation discourses -- Into the field -- Chapter Outlines -- References -- CHAPTER 2: GROWING SYDNEY -- A Vision for a Global City -- Growth as Development -- Agriculture and Cultural Complexity -- From Colonial to Global City -- Environmental and Cultural Limits to Growth -- Sprawl: The Messiness of the West -- History of 'Growth' in Sydney's Plans -- The 2005 Metropolitan Strategy -- Responses to the 2005 Strategy -- Green Zones -- A Plan for Growing Sydney (2015) -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 3: LOCAL FOOD, URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY -- Vortex cities -- The turn to local food -- Planning for PUA -- Protecting peri-urban agriculture.-Farmland preservation -- Countryside preservation -- Voices from the field: the view of the grower -- Urban agriculture and cultural diversity -- Sydney's CALD growers -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 4: DIVERSITY-BLIND PLANNING -- Diversity and Planning -- Participation in decision-making -- Consultation for the 2005 Metropolitan Strategy -- Public Consultations -- Perspectives of CALD growers -- Perspective of Government Planners -- Towards an Intercultural Perspective -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 5: THE THINGS WE WANT TO KEEP: MIGRANT MARKET GARDENS AS SYDNEY'S HISTORY AND HERITAGE -- Protecting Farms as Heritage? -- A Historic Farming Landscape -- Bringelly Exhibition -- Other Exhibitions on Sydney's Agriculture Heritage -- Migrant Heritage in Australia -- Migrant Gardens as Heritage -- Heritage Listed Market Gardens in Sydney -- Comparison to Other Heritages -- Growers' Perspectives -- A Translocated Tradition -- A Practice to Protect? -- Type of Crops Grown -- Family Tradition -- Connection to Land -- Knowledge -- Migration and Settlement -- Farming as Migrant Employment -- Providing for the Next Generation -- A Means of Support -- A Question of Value -- Migrant Market Gardens as Heritage? -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 6: SUSTAINING SYDNEY -- Can we feed Sydney? -- Sustainability in Sydney Metropolitan Planning -- Sydney's Forgotten Farmers -- Valuing Sydney's Agriculture: Environmentally, socially and economically -- Moving Out -- Owners and Lessees -- Communities -- Part of a sustainable Sydney -- The future of Sydney farming -- Rooftop and Vertical farming: Alternative and high-tech options for production -- Green zones or green belts -- Purchase or transfer of development rights -- Agri-Business Park -- Economic Viability: a whole of food system perspective -- Help wanted -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 7: MULTIPLE URBANISMS -- Growth as Development -- Land as Livelihood -- Heritage and Sustainability -- Productive Diversity -- Key findings of the book -- Final Word -- References.