Novella carpenter biography of george

Novella Carpenter is the author of the 2009 memoirFarm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. The book describes her extensive garden in Ghost Town, a run-down neighborhood about a mile from downtown Oakland, California.^[1][2] Farm City was listed by some reviewers as one of the top books of 2009,^[3][4] and it was the 2014 selection of the Marin County Free Library, City Public Libraries of Marin County and Dominican University of California "One Book One Marin" reading program.^[5]

Biography

Carpenter studied biology and English at the University of Washington and graduated from the School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley where she studied with Michael Pollan.^[6] She has written for Mother Jones, Salon, and SF Gate.

She is also the co-author (with Traci Vogel) of Don't Jump! The Northwest Winter Blues Survival Guide, published in 2002 by Sasquatch Books.^[7] Sh