Review of 'Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
If you were paying attention to the missing toilet paper last year and supply chain problems today, you might have thought "what if I can't get my food at the store?" or "what do I do when food prices spike?"
If we are in @iwriteok's (@HappenHerePod) crumbles or u/koryjon's (@collapsepod) collapse, learning about and experimenting with a less complex lifestyle is important. As a strictly grocery store fed human, I needed take a peek at what it was like through urban homesteading and farming.
Novella Carpenter's (@novellacarpentr) Oaklandian #FarmCity is a perfect memoir to understand what a less complex lifestyle might be like while you are planning to grow your first vegetables. Carpenter's prose is beautiful. The story is paced well. Her attention to detail and research was enlightening. I couldn't put it down.
Farm City is just littered with interesting follow up books:
How to Cook a Wolf by …
If you were paying attention to the missing toilet paper last year and supply chain problems today, you might have thought "what if I can't get my food at the store?" or "what do I do when food prices spike?"
If we are in @iwriteok's (@HappenHerePod) crumbles or u/koryjon's (@collapsepod) collapse, learning about and experimenting with a less complex lifestyle is important. As a strictly grocery store fed human, I needed take a peek at what it was like through urban homesteading and farming.
Novella Carpenter's (@novellacarpentr) Oaklandian #FarmCity is a perfect memoir to understand what a less complex lifestyle might be like while you are planning to grow your first vegetables. Carpenter's prose is beautiful. The story is paced well. Her attention to detail and research was enlightening. I couldn't put it down.
Farm City is just littered with interesting follow up books:
How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition by William J. Rorabaugh
Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons
The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love by Susan Allport
Alternative Urban Futures by Raquel Pinderhughes
Farm City is worth your time.