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Urban Farming: One Woman's Story
A Lecture by Novella Carpenter
Monday, April 1 | 5:30 p.m. Reception | 6:00 p.m. Lecture
USF, Presidio Campus, 920 Old Mason St. in the Presidio

Novella Carpenter will share the story of her urban farm in downtown Oakland, which has featured throughout the years, turkeys, bees, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, and goats. Her misadventures in squat farming inspired the New York Times to call her book, "easily the funniest, weirdest, most perversely provocative gardening book I've ever read. I couldn't put it down." 

In addition to reading from her book, and revealing the evolution of her farm and her lessons learned, Carpenter will discuss how urban farming can tap into the urban waste stream, making it even more sustainable. 

Novella Carpenter is the author of the best-selling memoir, Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer. She earned her masters degree from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied with Michael Pollan.

For more information, please contact Brigid Torres at brtorres@usfca.edu.