Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

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Author Novella Carpenter
Publication date
2009
ISBN 9781594202216
OCLC 276819186

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer is a 2009 memoir by Novella Carpenter. The book describes her extensive garden in Ghost Town, a run down neighborhood a mile from downtown Oakland, California. [1] Farm City was listed by some reviewers as one of the top books of 2009. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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References

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