![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, some rabbits joined the fun, then two three-hundred-pound pigs. What started out as a few egg-laying chickens led to turkeys, geese, and ducks. She closed her eyes and pictured heirloom tomatoes, a beehive, and a chicken coop. Especially when she moved to a ramshackle house in inner city Oakland and discovered a weed-choked, garbage-strewn abandoned lot next door. 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. 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. Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm ![]()
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