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Novella Carpenter
Memoir & Personal Growth
Novella Carpenter is an urban farmer and author known for her 2009 memoir Farm City about transforming a vacant lot in Oakland into a thriving farm.
Biography
Novella Carpenter is the author of the 2009 memoir Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. The book describes her extensive garden in Ghost Town, a run‑down neighborhood about a mile from downtown Oakland, California. The memoir recounts the collision of urban and rural life as Carpenter cultivated a productive farm on formerly vacant urban land.
Farm City drew attention from reviewers and readers: it was listed by some reviewers as one of the top books of 2009 and was selected in 2014 for the Marin County Free Library, City Public Libraries of Marin County and Dominican University of California "One Book One Marin" reading program.
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Books by Novella Carpenter
Farm City
Farm City is a 2009 memoir in which Carpenter describes her extensive garden in Ghost Town and how she turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving urban farm.