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Fecha de nacimiento: 1972
Género: female
Nacionalidad: USA
Lugares de residencia: Oakland, California, USA

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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer por Novella Carpenter

A fun little read about an urban homestead in Oakland.

Carpenter's honesty about her mistakes and misadventures is very winning... although ultimately the story of her two pigs stole the show for me. If you spend about two minutes watching pigs eat, the image of them relishing the contents of urban dumpsters becomes laugh-out-loud hilarious.

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raschneid | 45 reseñas más. | Dec 19, 2023 |

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer por Novella Carpenter

Turns out this was great as an audiobook, too -- enjoyed the re-read very much. I like how scrappy Carpenter is, I like how focused she is on giving back to the community, and I like how heartbreakingly honest she is about who livestock in the city can go wrong (and right).

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jennybeast | 45 reseñas más. | Jul 27, 2023 |

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer por Novella Carpenter

Didn't enjoy the parts where she kills the animals, but it was interesting and full of helpful information for a wannabe gardener.

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cziering | 45 reseñas más. | Nov 27, 2022 |

Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild por Novella Carpenter

This was not the book I expected to read as a followup to Farm City, but I really enjoyed it. Farm City is a book about scratching an urban farm out of an abandoned lot and Novella's journey as a farmer and a food activist.

This book is an even more personal history, an exploration of how family shapes each person in it, and what happens when the quest for fertility becomes an internal, rather than external focus. I found it moving, and deeply interesting as a chronicle of the generation after back-to-the-land. Also, as a blog reader, it was really good to know what happened with the goats.

My copy provided by Edelweiss.… (más)

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jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |

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