Ranked #8 in Farming, Ranked #16 in Gardening — see more rankings.
Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea of backyard self-sufficiency, Carpenter decided that it might be possible to have it both ways: a homegrown vegetable plot as well as museums, bars, concerts, and a twenty-four-hour convenience mart mere minutes away. Especially when she moved to a ramshackle house in inner city Oakland and... more
Rankings by Category
Farm City is ranked in the following categories:
- #23 in Agriculture
- #71 in Children's Farm
- #87 in Food
- #55 in Sustainability