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Farm city : the education of an urban farmer

Author: Novella Carpenter
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned avacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm.
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Genre/Form: Nonfiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Novella Carpenter
ISBN: 9781594202216 1594202214
OCLC Number: 276819186
Description: 276 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Turkey --
Rabbit --
Pig.
Responsibility: Novella Carpenter.

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Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned avacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm.

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An Inspriring Story for Urban Farmers and Hungry People

by RocketCoffee (WorldCat user published 2009-08-15) Excellent Permalink

This book is a great read, both happy and sad.  Novella Carpenter is an excellent story teller and shows us how we can all creat life and sustenance in the unlikeliest of places.  Novella also demonstrates in this book the power of food in a community, how the garden gives both food and...
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