Farm City Quotes

“I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.”
― Novella Carpenter, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

“No one seemed to think it was odd that a Dumpster-diving urban pig farmer was in their midst. In fact, I came to learn that the restaurant industry was filled with other obsessive freaks like Samin, who would never buy a factory-made pickle. I was just another one of those freaks.”
― Novella Carpenter, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

“Putting up food is, at its heart, an optimistic thing. It’s a bold way to say: I will be sticking around.”
― Novella Carpenter, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

“Eventually I got some unicorn posters, and all was healed. Or maybe not all, because I still feel a prickle of almost religious ecstasy at the smell of horseshit.”
― Novella Carpenter, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer