Read: Novella Carpenter - Farm City, The Education of an Urban Farmer

This is the book that I thought Manny Howard's "Empire of Dirt" was going to be. It's a funny story of a woman raising plants and animals in her backyard. Just like Manny Howard, except that she does it for the joy of it (rather than some sad mid-life crisis) and learns from her failures to build on her successes - to the point where she progresses from raising birds (chickens, ducks, goose, turkeys) to rabbits (dozens of them) to two full-size pigs! After finishing the book last night, I am more glad than ever that we bought a lovely pork shoulder roast at the farmer's market Sunday - today is the day to make that for dinner.