8-12-12 Farm City by Novella Carpenter - Non-Fiction

5 - This book made me laugh.  Novella and her boyfriend start an urban farm.  Before you think of a pretty terraced backyard in the suburbs, this was in Oakland, California.  Yep.  "The Ghetto"  She converted a vacant lot and began growing there and kept bees, and chickens, and ducks in her yard.  She also did turkeys.  This book is the story of how that came about and how she helped advance a movement for people to know where there food is coming from and to have the opportunity for freshness.  She still has the farm and you can follow her blog, Ghost Town Farm.  A really great and, I hate to say it, inspiring read.