• Coming to…New York City

    Updated: 2010-09-21 02:40:45
    This weekend, I'll be in New York for a conference called Farm City (sounds familiar, right?).This is from the organizers of the conference: "With rising costs of energy and environmental and health dangers inherent in current industrial food production methods, metropoles need to band together to forge new small-scale, sustainable methods to grow and source food."That's something I can agree with, so I signed up to help.And so, on Friday, Sept 24, there will be a fun fundraiser, featuring a ... posted by Novella Carpenter on September, 28

  • Portland Weekend

    Updated: 2010-09-15 04:36:53
    Hello Oregonians! I'll be up there this weekend, for an urban farming bicycle rodeo. Saturday will be the big day, with canning demos, jam and pie contests, and hands-on chicken classes. I for one am excited about home cheesemaking at 2:45pm. I'm going to give a little talk and reading, then the fun begins. Hope you can make it–I'm bringing GhostTown t-shirts to sell!Tickets for the event are $5 and get you access to the free workshops. I think some of the proceeds go to support Zeneger... posted by Novella Carpenter on September, 24

  • Food Roadtrip

    Updated: 2010-09-09 03:37:42
    Ok, I didn't take my camera on my roadtrip. What can I say? I'm a slacker blogger. I just didn't want to have to chronicle everything and think, "that would be a good blog post." I wanted to relax and let shit happen. Which it did. I'm writing a new book and all the juicy details will spill around, um, 2014.Luckily, Bill bought a camera in Chicago and so he got some photos of Chicago, which we went to mainly to eat. We went to the Ukrainian Village and enjoyed a bunch of crazy stuff (for... posted by Novella Carpenter on September, 14

  • Cob Oven Story

    Updated: 2010-09-09 03:37:40
    register tour sign in home my books find books friends explore groups explore books trivia quizzes people authors videos writing quotes events swap Next Pop-Up Farmstand : Wednesday 5-7pm Party on the 28th Cob Oven Story Ok , my mom keeps asking to see it . So here we go… I'm really tired , so I'm just going to show some pictures and tell you how we made this . oven First , I scrounged a bunch of urbanite rip-rap , busted pieces of concrete and piled them into a pile . Then threw some gravel in between the cracks . This was all free and took about a . day Then Sadie and Emma came over and we made the oven . S and E have made ovens before and are really hilarious and fun people.First we made a cob layer over the . View full post on Novella Carpenter's website 0 comments like Published on

  • Manny Howard Update

    Updated: 2010-09-09 03:37:38
    Remember awhile back when I was all pissed off about Manny Howard, the urban farmer in Brooklyn? I just reread my post, and man, I was being such a bitch. I think I was scared that his book would come out and Farm City would look derivative, and I worried that he was mocking something–growing food in cities–that I hold near to my heart. My fears retreated once Farm City was published and I started getting letters from readers and fellow urban farmers who were so supportive. It's great to get ... posted by Novella Carpenter on September, 08

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