In 2014, she released her memoir Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild which was selected as a Library Journal Best Book of 2014 and a Northern California Book Award Nominee for Best Creative Nonfiction of 2014.Ī child of back-to-the-land hippies, Novella Carpenter grew up in the rural areas of Idaho and Washington State. The book describes her extensive garden in Ghost Town, a run-down neighborhood about a mile from downtown Oakland, California. Her follow-up book is The Essential Urban Farmer, a "how-to" guide for a new generation of farmers. She is the author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. In addition to her farming and writing, She is an adjunct professor of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco, teaching urban agriculture and writing in the university's College of Arts and Sciences. Novella Carpenter is an author, journalist and urban farmer.
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