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 [...]
Oakland has hit its Indian Summer stride with early morning powder blue skies and all day sunshine making way into effortless, balmy nights. Neither my daughter nor I could sleep last night and she ended up in my bed. By midnight I was still tossing and turning, throwing off the quilt, moving her long legs [...]
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 [...]
