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I bounded downstairs. My neighbor Mr. Nguyen, who lived one floor below me, was sitting outside on the porch, smoke and steam from his morning cigarette and Vietnamese coffee wafting up together in the crisp spring air.

In his sixties, Mr. Nguyen dyed his graying hair black, wore button-down dress shirts, and was surprisingly sprightly. He set down his coffee, stubbed out his cigarette, and walked into the street with me to receive the package. The postal worker made me sign an official-looking piece of paper before he would hand me the box.

It peeped when I opened it. It was filled with puff balls. Fuzzy yellow ducklings called out desperately with their orange bills. Long-necked goslings squawked, and fluffy multicolored chicks peeped.

Three odd-looking chicks with an unattractive pimple of skin atop their heads gazed up quietly from the box. The delivery guy shook his head in disbelief. I could tell he had questions. Were we not in the city?

Who is this insane woman? Is this even legal? But years of working for the government had, perhaps, deadened his curiosity. He just jumped back into his postal jeep and drove away. Nguyen giggled. For the last few years he had happily observed— and participated in—my rural-urban experiments.

He knew poultry when he saw it: he had been a farmer in Vietnam before enlisting to help the Americans during the war. He looked at me for a hint.

Then he grimaced. I knew that his wife, Lee, was a vegetarian; she must have made an exception for Thanksgiving. Nguyen shook his head vigorously. Too tough. Very bad. I closed the lid, and the peeping stopped.

Nguyen went back into his apartment, returning to the blare of a Vietnamese-language television show. In the middle of 28th Street, I held the box of poultry and waterfowl. The abandoned ghetto where we lived had a distinct Wild West vibe—gunfights in the middle of the day, a general state of lawlessness, and now this: livestock.

Every second-rate city has an identity complex. Oakland is no different. O-Town is surrounded by overachievers. The famously liberal and plush Berkeley lies to the north. The high-tech mecca of Silicon Valley glimmers to the south. Just eight miles west via the Bay Bridge is San Francisco—so close, but the polar opposite of Oakland. SF is filled with successful, polished people; Oakland is scruffy, loud, unkempt.

Then I lived in a logging town in Washington State whose big claim to fame was a satanic cult. By the time I moved to Seattle living in the boring Beacon Hill neighborhood , the uncool, the unsavory, had become my niche. When I went traveling and someone warned me—speaking in low tones, a snarl to her lips—not to go to Croatia or Chiapas or Brooklyn, I tended to add the place to my itinerary immediately.

I made a mental note to check it out. Bill and I took three months to explore the candidates. At his insistence, we brought our cat. His voice is Tom Waits gravel from years of smoking.

We hit all the cities we thought we might like to live in: Portland too perfect. Austin too in the middle of Texas. New Orleans too hot. Brooklyn too little recycling. The content is organised by themes of importance to urban farmers: sun and heat; water usage; seasonal production; spatial planning; soil quality and usage; propagation and breeding; pests and diseases; farming under time constraints; sustainability; and community initiatives.

Each chapter unfolds a piece the story of The Micro Farm Project. The challenges that crop and livestock production present is discussed, and practical solutions to the problems-such as lack of space, high population density, poor soil quality, planning restrictions, etc-are given. Also included are case studies that give examples of different methods used within urban farming from different regions throughout the world.

Filled with both practical advice and heartfelt anecdotes, this book will help you become the next backyard food revolutionary, one plant or pasture at a time. Chronicles the adventures of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving urban farm, complete with chickens, turkey, bees, and pigs. Seminar paper from the year in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: 1,0, European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder Intercultural Management , course: Cultural Policy and International Cultural Cooperation, language: English, abstract: The term urban farming or agriculture recently pops up in the media.

It is mainly applied regarding city development in third world countries, but as well it becomes more often a phenomena taking place in cities of industrial countries. After examining the general characteristics of urban farming, I am going to scrutinize the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of urban agricultural projects taking place in the city of Detroit. The former Motor City has been experiencing a dramatic economic collapse. Hence, because of its urgent need for change, it serves as prime example for urban farming in industrialized countries.

The inspiring and sometimes hilarious story of a family that quit the rat race and left the city to live out their ideals on an organic farm, and ended up building a model for a new kind of agriculture. You know those books where the city folks move to the country and have all kinds of crazy misadventures? Where the barnyard is a place of bucolic harmony and each passing season brings the author closer to understanding his proper place in the natural order?

You know those books where the primary objective is not so much farming, but writing about farming? But their goal from the beginning was to build a real farm, one that would sustain their family, heal their environment, and nourish their community. It was a goal that was achieved not through bucolic self-reflection, but through a decade of grinding toil and perseverance.

The "how-to" guide for a new generation of farmers from the author of Farm City and a leading urban garden educator. In this indispensable guide, Farm City author Novella Carpenter and Willow Rosenthal share their experience as successful urban farmers and provide practical blueprints-complete with rich visual material-for novice and experienced growers looking to bring the principles of ethical food to the city streets.

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