Novella Carpenter compares herself to the witch in Hansel and Grettle, “I fatten things up so I can eat them.†A more apt description might be Charlie from the Chocolate Factory: she’s found a golden ticket to building community through urban farming, and she sure is ecstatic! Carpenter recently spoke about her new book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op as part of a fundraiser for Soil Born Farms.
Carpenter embodies the passionate social movement surrounding locally grown, sustainable food practices. She’s sharp as a tack, yet laid-back, and comes dressed in her jeans and work boots. She opens by cheering about her afternoon class on backyard chicken farming, “I felt like I was part of the resistance movement. Yeah!†She declares with fist raised, earnest but laughing.
Carpenter takes this work seriously. She lives Continue reading “Farm City: Tales from an Urban Farmer”
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