![]() When Carpenter stood before a packed house at Pegasus Books in Berkeley, California, she spoke of the need to make amends with her father, George Carpenter, an intermittent presence in her life. ![]() ![]() Gone Feral, Carpenter’s latest release, departs radically from these cheerful books. Less personal but highly instructional, the book takes the nascent farmer from dry ground to lush vegetation and, if one wishes, to raising animals. Written with Willow Rosenthal, it addresses the burgeoning urban farm movement, outlining it in a thick manual. Farm City won Carpenter a lot of readers with her humor, honesty, and earthy refusal of consumerist values.įarm City was followed in 2011 by The Essential Urban Farmer. Make no mistake, however, she is utterly serious about life off the grid in one of the country’s grittiest cities. That this land is located in one of Oakland, California’s worst neighborhoods only adds to the madcap quality of Carpenter’s choice. Novella Carpenter is best known for her 2009 memoir, Farm City, wherein she details her decision to squat farm the empty lot beside her rental. ![]()
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