I am so very excited about this book! The author, Novella Carpenter, is a friend of mine and a very talented story teller. This book is about her adventures creating an urban farm in a vacant lot in a ghetto neighborhood of Oakland, California.
From the back cover:
<snip> "By turns edgy, moving, and hilarious, Farm City marks the debut of a striking new voice in American writing." -- Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food (yes, THAT Michael Pollan!).
I started the first chapter and it was all I could do to put it down and get back to work. Like her blog, Ghost Town Farm, I expect this to be a great read.
The kick-off event of her book tour will be this Saturday at BioFuel Oasis in Berkeley, California. She will also be speaking with Michael Pollan on June 18th in Berkeley. More events can be found on her blog and on the book blog.
Congratulations Novella!!!
A FARM?! In Oakland?! Ok I HAVE to read this!
Posted by: Liz | June 12, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Hi Maia, are you around/near San Francisco? I am visiting next week and am about a continent's width out of my element. I want to go to Carolina Homespun. What else???
Posted by: Laura Sue | June 12, 2009 at 01:36 PM
That looks like a great one, must pick it up. I am constantly reading about people suppling local farmers markets with organic produce from their own tiny backyard and am inspired. And also people who have found large unused land owned by people in other countries and have farm squatted on it and grown produce as well. Those are good ones too!
Posted by: urban craft | June 19, 2009 at 05:32 PM
Maia, hi, this is Katherine -- I met you in SLC a few weeks back. I'd intended to swing by your booth at Black Sheep, but didn't end up doing so. Rather, I looked at your booth, but you weren't there -- I guess it was your business partner instead. Anyway, hi. And I'm choosing this post for a comment because you might be interested in the book The Urban Homestead. It's more how-to than it sounds like this one is, but maybe you'd like it, too.
Posted by: Katherine | July 05, 2009 at 09:03 PM