![]() Next door to her apartment, she set up her homestead in a vacant lot, which she “repurposed” into a farm, complete with a garden, chickens, bees and more with the help of her boyfriend, Bill, and a variety of eccentric neighbors. Novella Carpenter is that someone, creating not only a homestead but a sanctuary on a piece of “borrowed” land in the middle of an urban jungle.įarm City is a memoir of her third year in Oakland, after moving into the neighborhood known as “GhostTown,” a reference to the many abandoned and decrepit houses. It is rare, however, to find someone who imagines these kind of romantic agrarian snapshots in a vacant lot in the heart of downtown Oakland, California. Or perhaps more modern-day, we imagine Instagram-filtered rows of gleaming vegetables and adorable pictures of baby animals. When one thinks of a farm, usually it is a quaint image from sometime in the 1950s, with rolling hills of green, a large red barn, a rickety tractor. ![]()
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