Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
I should throw it out there that I was so totally psyched to read this book. I've had it on my to-read list since I read a review of it in the Times or the Globe (can't remember which) two years ago. I have lived most of my adult life in a manner that keeps me from growing as much food as I would like, and the premise of this book compelled me. It's the story of the author's move to inner-city Oakland in order to farm a vacant lot next door to her apartment, and all the wacky stories that happen along the way.
I started out really liking the book, and gradually found myself disliking it more and more. The book is divided into three sections: "Turkey," "Rabbit," and "Pig"; as one might expect, each chapter is about her farming of that specific animal. As you can imagine, the animals range from least to most outlandish agricultural choices for city life.
I really started to dislike the author when she bought two turkeys. As a breed, turkeys thrive in flocks; they do not enjoy solitary life. I found myself even more frowny-faced when her female turkey died and she didn't get another hen to repla
Ghost Town Farm was an urban farm created by Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, which is a memoir of Carpenter's establishment of a farm in West Oakland in the Ghost Town or Hoover/Foster neighborhood at 28th and MLK. Carpenter keeps a blog at Ghost Town Farm.
Carpenter was evicted c, and the garden is now tended by a different group of urban farmers. 1
Ghost Town Farm,
photo from Our OaklandNovella Carpenter,
photo from Our Oakland
a peek through the fence, May, by greenkozisign on the MLK side, which is, in fact, plural by greenkozi, May
Links and References
- Back to the Roots The Urban Orchardist blog
Blog
novella is killing two of our rabbits at her NYC book signing for Farm City. Stay tuned. and tune into her blog: You can read the first chapter of her book, linked from this NYTimes review!
Books of The Times
Living Off the Land, Surrounded by Asphalt
By DWIGHT GARNER
Published: June 11,
I had a feeling I might like this memoir when I came upon on its first sentence, a gentle twist on the opening of Isak Dinesen’s “Out of Africa.” Here is Novella Carpenter: “I have a farm on a dead-end street in the ghetto.”
But I didn’t truly fall in love with “Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer” until I hit Page That’s when the bees that Ms. Carpenter has purchased from a mail order company arrive at her post office in Oakland, Calif. A panicked postal employee calls, begging her to pick them up because they’re attracting other bees and “freaking everyone out.”
So Ms. Carpenter hurries over, picks up the humming box, and casually plops it into the front basket of her bicycle. Then she has a parade. “I proceeded to ride down Telegraph Avenue, laughing out loud at the bees who tried to follow us amid the traffic,” she writes. “At stoplights I looked down at the mesh
Novella carpenter biography
Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm
Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea of backyard self-sufficiency, Carpenter decided that it might be possible to have it both ways: a homegrown vegetable plot as well as museums, bars, concerts, and a twenty-four-hour convenience mart mere minutes away. Especially when she moved to a ramshackle house in inner city Oakland and discovered a weed-choked, garbage-strewn abandoned lot next door. She closed her eyes and pictured heirloom tomatoes, a beehive, and a chicken coop.
What started out as a few egg-laying chickens led to turkeys, geese, and ducks. Soon, some rabbits joined the fun, then two three-hundred-pound pigs. And no, these charming and eccentric animals weren't pets; she was a farmer, not a zookeeper. Novella was raising these animals for dinne
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