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Wow. This woman is really dedicated. Perhaps inevitable considering her hippie parents raised her on a ranch. Makes raising my three tomato plants and some jalapeño peppers seem pretty wimpy. I was stuck by how unpretentious she came across. Typically people with a quest like this make me feel (a) unhealthy (b) heartless murderers of nature or (c) a soulless automaton selling out to the corporations and I felt none of that reading this. She seems aware of how outrageous her activity seems to oth
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Approaching winter, I needed a warmer, spring-like read and found that in Carpenter’s Farm City, her account of turning unused urban spaces and into green oasis’s filled with vegetables, fruit trees, and bees. But Carpenter is always looking for the next challenge, and when she decides to try her hand at raising her own meat, she candidly recounts starting out with a “Homesteader’s Delight” mixed-box of chicks, ducklings, geese and turkeys to raise as meat birds, it culminates to a story celebra
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