Read: Michael Ableman - On good land: the autobiography of an urban farm

The polar opposite of Manny Howard's 'My Empire of Dirt'. This is the history of a real working farm, albeit a fairly small one that is in the present day entirely surrounded by California suburbia. Michael Ableman doesn't start out knowing all the answers, but he patiently keeps trying, observing, and comes to have real insight into what it means to farm the way he does, and where he does. It's all one complex ecosystem, trying to mimic how nature works, in order to bypass the destructive processes of industrial-scale agriculture. At the same time his suburban neighbours come to have a surprising connection to the farm.