Ebook {Epub PDF} Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter

Farm City The Education of an Urban Farmer There are people — in fact, the vast majority of Homo sapiens — who see and define their existence through the lens of what they do: Teachers, bus drivers, nurses, architects, accountants, and any number of professionals whose modus operandi is collectively understood and agreed upon. Then there are those who teeter along the edges of known and 4/5. Novella Carpenter grew up in rural Idaho and Washington State. She majored in biology and English at the University of Washington in Seattle. While attending Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, she studied under Michael Pollan for two years. Her writing has /5(). Novella Carpenter grew up in rural Idaho and Washington State. She majored in biology and English at the University of Washington in Seattle. While attending Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, she studied under Michael Pollan for two years. Her urban farm began with a few chickens, then some bees, until she had a full-blown farm near downtown Oakland.

by Novella Carpenter Reviewed May by Claire Turner, CISA Intern. Reading Novella Carpenter's memoir Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer gave me a deeper understanding of the distinctions between farm communities in the city and those in the www.doorway.rua, raised on a rural Idaho farm, seeks the culture of urban California. Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farmNovella 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. Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. Urban meets rural in this memoir of life on a farm in the slums of Oakland. Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer Penguin Press pp., $

NOVELLA CARPENTER grew up in rural Idaho and Washington State. She studied biology and English at the University of Washington, where she had many odd jobs, including assassin bug handler and millimeter film projectionist. After moving to California, she attended UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism where she studied with Michael Pollan. In Novella Carpenter’s book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, the author describes her adventure of creating a farm in an urban area she called “Ghost Town Farm” on a dead end street in the ghetto of Oakland, California. This non-fiction book is based on a true story of Carpenter’s life of creating a sustainable farm in an abandoned lot next to her apartment. Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer: Author: Novella Carpenter: Publisher: Penguin, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects.