Posts Tagged ‘Farm City’

Ghost Town Happening, Goats and All

Posted on August 30, 2009, 11:25 am, by romneysteele, under Food and Culture, Literary Musings.

Novella Carpenter

Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City, delivered on her promise to open her Ghost Town farm to visitors yesterday and arrive they did on surely the hottest day in Oakland so far this year. I mean it was fricking hot!! We narrowly missed her chicken slaughter demonstration–ok with me–and yet still landed in the [...]

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Urban Farm Girl

Posted on June 21, 2009, 4:40 pm, by romneysteele, under About My Book, Family, Food and Culture, Literary Musings, My posts, News and Happenings.

Agrarian farmer and poet Wendell Berry’s oft repeated phrase, “Eating is an agriculture act” comes to mind this week, especially as I like many others consider where best to spend my money in a precarious economy. Organic stonefruit say for eating out of hand? Yes, when I can afford it. And for canning? Maybe we think [...]

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