title: Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
text: # Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
  
  Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer is a 2009 memoir by Novella Carpenter. The book describes her extensive garden in Ghost Town, a run down neighborhood a mile from downtown Oakland, California. Farm City was listed by some reviewers as one of the top books of 2009.
  
  