Author: Novella Carpernter
Nominated by: Susan Updegrove
Non-fiction
An unforgettable charming memoir of Novella's move to create an urban farm in inner-city Oakland when she turns a weed choked, garbage strewn abondoned lot next door into a farm growing heirloom tomatoes and other vegetables. Add a beehive, chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, rabbits and eventually two pigs and the challenge and fun begins.
This book is available in the library's "book club in a box".
More: New York Times