Read: Manny Howard - My empire of dirt: how one man turned his big-city backyard into a farm

This was a disappointing book. Manny Howard took on the challenge to grow/raise all his food for one month in his Brooklyn backyard as a magazine assignment. He doesn't seem to have any particular interest in the plants or animals themselves, he's just having a midlife crisis and doesn't know what else to do with his life. He flails about helplessly, which I suppose is meant to be comical, but I found it depressing - he never really succeeds at anything, and in the meantime his family life just about unravels. I kind of wish I'd never read it, and I don't often have that reaction.