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New Docu-Series Offers a Crash Course in Urban Homesteading
“Once you get a taste of your own pickles, it will be hard to turn back!”
“I have a farm on a dead-end street in the ghetto,” wrote journalist and urban grower Novella Carpenter in her book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. She continued:
Carpenter named her plot of land—home to vegetables, chickens, bees, ducks, and two enormous pigs—Ghost Town Farm, after the moniker given to her West Oakland neighborhood.