Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

Culinary Biographies & Memoirs

Author: Novella Carpenter

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….Read More

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