Ghost Town Farm was an urban farm created by Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, which is a memoir of Carpenter's establishment of a farm in West Oakland in the Ghost Town or Hoover/Foster neighborhood at 28th and MLK. Carpenter keeps a blog at Ghost Town Farm.
Carpenter was evicted c.2018, and the garden is now tended by a different group of urban farmers. 1
Ghost Town Farm, 2009
photo from Our Oakland
Novella Carpenter, 2009
photo from Our Oakland
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a peek through the fence, May, 2013 by greenkozi.JPG/_info/)
sign on the MLK side, which is, in fact, plural by greenkozi, May 2013
Links and References
- Back to the Roots The Urban Orchardist blog
