On Tuesday, June 8 Novella Carpenter – a writer and urban farmer – will speak at the Free Library of Philadelphia about her recently released book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. The book chronicles Carpenter’s experience as she raises vegetables, chickens, rabbits, ducks, goats, turkeys, pigs and bees as a transplant to one of Oakland’s most perilous neighborhoods, nicknamed “GhostTown.”

Carpenter stands her ground as an emerging food writer, recording the rewards of farming in gritty urban America. At the Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, Carpenter studied under writer and food expert Michael Pollan. She continues to keep readers entranced with her lively blog, Ghost Town Farm, which provides updates and pictures of Carpenter’s activities as both an author and farmer.

The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. and include Q&A with the audience and a book signing.

Beginning in 1994, The Free Library of Philadelphia has hosted Author Events that offer Philadelphians the opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue with today’s most celebrated voices in the humanities and sciences.