Novella Carpenter on "Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer"

Novella Carpenter on "Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer"
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06.19.2011

Novella Carpenter was thrilled when she and her boyfriend found an affordable apartment in the Bay Area, and even more when she discovered it had a vacant lot next door. She immediately began to imagine a garden, more like a farm, but the author of "Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer" tells Jim Fleming that there was a drawback to her urban farm dream: the apartment was in Oakland, then called "the murder capital of the world."

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