Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Farm City (edición 2009)por Novella Carpenter
Información de la obraLa granja urbana por Novella Carpenter
Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Very good memoir about Novella who wants to raise her own food in the ghetto area of Oakland, California. She starts out with vegetables, goes to poultry including turkeys for her Thanksgiving dinner. Then rabbits and finally the top of the line, raising pigs. She is able to finish them cheaply by scavenging in the garbage cans of restaurants and finds so much good food that is going to waste! She and her boyfriend, Bill have to do this almost daily because Novella finds out that pigs eat a lot! Really enjoyed how she interacted with the other people of the ghetto and really liked Chris that taught her to how to make different kinds of sausages and preserved meats from her pig, Big Guy. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Distinciones
Biography & Autobiography.
Gardening.
Nonfiction.
HTML: 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 300-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 dinner. Novella Carpenter's corner of downtown Oakland is populated by unforgettable characters. Lana (anal spelled backward, she reminds us) runs a speakeasy across the street and refuses to hurt even a fly, let alone condone raising turkeys for Thanksgiving. Bobby, the homeless man who collects cars and car parts just outside the farm, is an invaluable neighborhood concierge. The turkeys, Harold and Maude, tend to escape on a daily basis to cavort with the prostitutes hanging around just off the highway nearby. Every day on this strange and beautiful farm, urban meets rural in the most surprising ways. For anyone who has ever grown herbs on their windowsill or tomatoes on their fire escape, or who has obsessed over the offerings at the local farmers' market, Carpenter's story will capture your heart. And if you've ever considered leaving it all behind to become a farmer outside the city limits or looked at the abandoned lot next door with a gleam in your eye, consider this both a cautionary tale and a full-throated call to action. Farm City is an unforgettably charming memoir, full of hilarious moments, fascinating farmers' tips, and a great deal of heart. It is also a moving meditation on urban life versus the natural world and what we have given up to live the way we do. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)630.91732Technology Agriculture & related technologies Agriculture Biography; History By PlaceClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
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. ( )