Farm City

by Novella Carpenter

BARNYARD

  Bairacli Levy, Juliette. The Complete Herbal for Farm and Stable. London: Faber & Faber, 1952.

  Bennett, Bob. Raising Rabbits Successfully. Charlotte, VT: Williamson Publishing, 1984.

  Cato, Marcus Porcius. Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro. Middlesex, UK: Echo Library, 2007.

  Dadant, C. P. First Lessons in Beekeeping. Hamilton, IL: Great River Publishing, 1917, 1924, 1976.

  Damerow, Gail. Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep and Cattle. North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, 2002.

  Emery, Carla. The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old-fashioned Recipe Book. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1994.

  Evans, Robert Jones. History of the Duroc. Chicago: James J. Doty, c. 1918.

  Holderread, Dave. Storey’s Guide to Raising Ducks. North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, 1978.

  Horn, Tammy. Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2005.

  Hubbell, Sue. A Book of Bees . . . and How to Keep Them. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.

  Maeterlinck, Maurice. The Life of the Bee. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1913.

  Olkowski, Helga. The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1979.

  Root, Amos Ives. The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, 40th ed. Medina, OH: The A. I. Root Company, 1990.

  Smith, Andrew. The Turkey: An American Story. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

  Towne, Charles Wayland, and Edward Norris Wentworth. Pigs: From Cave to Corn Belt. University of Oklahoma Press, 1950.

  Van Loon, Dirk. Small-Scale Pig Raising. Pownal, VT: Garden Way Publishing, 1978.

  GARDEN

  Ashworth, Susan. Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners. Decatur, IA: Seed Savers Exchange, 1992.

  Biggs, Matthew. Matthew Biggs’s Complete Book of Vegetables: The Practical Sourcebook to Growing, Harvesting and Cooking Vegetables. London: Kyle Cathie, 1997.

  Flores, Heather C. Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006.

  Goldman, Amy. The Compleat Squash: A Passionate Grower’s Guide to Pumpkins, Squashes, and Gourds. New York: Workman Publishing, 2004.

  Guillet, Dominique. The Seeds of Kokopelli. Boston: Kokopelli Seed Foundation, 1981.

  Hartman, Hudson. Plant Propogation: Principles and Practices. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.

  Hemenway, Toby. Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Homescale Permaculture. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2003.

  King, F. H. Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2004 (first published in 1911).

  Pack, Charles Lathrop. War Garden Victorious. Washington, D.C.: National War Garden Commission, 1919.

  Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design. New York: Basic Books, 1984.

  Tucker, David. Kitchen Gardening in America. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993.

  Warner, Sam. To Dwell Is to Garden: A History of Boston’s Community Gardens. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987.

  Wright, Richardson. The Story of Gardening: From the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to New York. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1934.

  KITCHEN

  David, Elizabeth. French Provincial Cooking. New York: Harper & Row, 1960.

  Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh. The River Cottage Meat Book. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2007.

  Fisher, M.F.K. How to Cook a Wolf. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988.

  Grigson, Jane. Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery. London: Penguin Books, 1970.

  Henderson, Fergus. The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

  McGee, Harold. On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen. New York: Scribner, 1984.

  O’Neill, Molly, ed. American Food Writing: An Anthology. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 2007.

  Ruhlman, Michael, and Brian Polcyn. Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.

  Visser, Margaret. The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

  LIBRARY

  Agnew, Eleanor. Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004.

  Allport, Susan. The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love. New York: Harmony Books, 2000.

  Berger, John. About Looking. New York: Vintage, 1991 (first published 1980 by Pantheon Books).

  Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977.

  ———. What Are People For? New York: North Point Press (FSG), 1990.

  ———. The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. New York: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003.

  Brand, Stewart. Whole Earth Catalog. Berkeley: Whole Earth Publishing, 1968.

  Budiansky, Stephen. The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1992.

  Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

  Fernald, Anya; Serena Milano; and Piero Sardo, eds. A World of Presidia: Food, Culture, and Community. Bra, Italy: Slow Food Editore, 2004.

  Gibbons, Euell. Stalking the Wild Asparagus: Field Guide Edition. New York: David Mackey, 1970.

  Hough, Michael. City Form and Natural Process: Towards a New Urban Vernacular. London: Routledge, 1984.

  Johnson, Marilynn. The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

  Lawson, Laura. City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

  MacDonald, Betty. The Egg and I. New York: Harper & Row, 1945.

  Pellegrini, Angelo. The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984.

  Pinderhughes, Raquel. Alternative Urban Futures: Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities Throughout the World. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

  Plath, Sylvia. Ariel. New York: HarperCollins, 1963.

  Rhodes, Jane. Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon. New York: The New Press, 2007.

  Rorabaugh, W. J. The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition. London: Oxford University Press, 1979.

  Shepard, Paul. Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978.

  Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

  Vileisis, Ann. Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2008.

  Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House in the Big Woods. New York: HarperCollins, 1935.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Novella Carpenter grew up in rural Idaho and Washington State. She studied biology and English at the University of Washington, where she had many odd jobs, including assassin bug handler and 16-millimeter projectionist. After moving to California, she attended UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her writing has appeared on salon.com, saveur.com, and sfgate.com (the San Francisco Chronicle’s Web site) and in Mother Jones. Her adventures in urban agriculture began with honeybees and a few chickens, then some turkeys, until she created an urban homestead called GhostTown Farm near downtown Oakland, where she and her boyfriend, Bill, live today.

 

 

 
0%); -moz-filter: grayscale(100%); -o-filter: grayscale(100%); -ms-filter: grayscale(100%); filter: grayscale(100%); " class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons">share