Obsessives - Urban Farming

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Novella Carpenter started small, with some plants in an empty lot next to her house in Oakland. A couple of years later, she was tending to a full-blown farm, with goats, turkeys, ducks, pigs, and a robust garden. This video tackles questions of neighborliness (which is more offensive: police sirens or roosters crowing?), environmental poisons (raised beds are key), and the all-important slaughter question. The answer: Yes, she does (and yes, there is some bloody footage).

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thanks for sharing your story and the experiences you had. it is really interesting how you started something that has resulted more and more in an urban farming thing, without realizing at first. I am sure that this term is actually new to most people, even tho this method of urban planning is quite old. end of the 19th century there was this garden city movement by Sir E. Howard that already included urban farming in a similar manner. now, 100 years later, people finally start to implement this method. let's see what will happen within the next 30 years. it might become a more and more common thing. best regards from Germany.

I've watched this four times now...

ITS LIKE LIVING IN GUATEMALA CITY

10 excellent laying hens will probably only give 1-2 eggs a day in December, January then by May they'll be at best production through summer. People aren't educating themselves before they get critters and the animal pays the price (except for the chickens I have gotten free from CO ads when owners grow bored of them after 4 months). Then they're happy chickens til the end.

I can't say enough that ANYBODY that thinks it's cruel to slaughter a well tended animal.....you better be a vegan saying that. Commercial food animals are so inhumanely raised,transported,slaugutered. From birth to desth they have it rough. This is how it should be done.

Hey there, here's an idea for your watering needs. If you can get some IV tubing and have that delivering water from 2 liter bottles that would deliver a lot of water over a long time effectively. If you can create a scaffolding to hang the bottles up from for the gravity effect. Good luck to you, I really enjoy this channel.

i use to have one her name goldie . she love me and thinking iam her mom . and i love her . but . she poop alot . and her poop smell very bad . imagin i have one and you have 3 .

I'm reading Farm City for my English class

This woman might look off-putting at first but there is value in everything she has said, I'm happy that I got to learn from her experience.

85 people who watched this are morons.

I admire your way of life. I couldn't do it. I could not kill an animal that I raised but I understand that it has to be done. I eat meat which I buy from the super market. I shall continue to do that as I have no connection to what I am buying and eating. That works for me. I couldn't kill Bugs Bunny, or a goat, pig or chicken. I just happily eat what the supermarket sells.

Love to see your foraging efforts in an urban environment to feed your animals. Great work.

There is a very smart point she makes at 4:22 about having a symbiotic relationship with a goat (giving food and getting milk). But then, she misses the same point at 10:41 when she says if people don't like to eat rabbit meat, it doesn't make sense to keep them. I disagree. The circle of life is closed when you give the rabbit food, collect its pellets and feed your plants with a direct application of organic fertilizer, which is free, locally produced, and will not burn your plants. Then you harvest your crop to eat. By which, you sustain, and can provide for your rabbit. Sometimes we don't see the value in things, because they don't provide direct and immediate results. For example, we readily kill insects, not realizing that they have great value to our ecosystem, and indirectly to humans.

I was cracking up when u said that people were afraid of goats. And no one was gonna come get ur pigs because ur. In a ghost town... With gangsters etc. lol

You feel horrible about killing the animals, yet you keep doing it. Way to go woman.

Did you guys hear at the end when she was talking about the Goats liking to eat the Corn Stalks and that one Goat was like Fuuck Yeaaah!! 8D

I think I just fell in love a little bit

Hey.
Where were you self righteous bretharians when her neighborhood was going to shit? !!!
Judge not lest. ...
Yeah.

I love her dry sense of humor. "Yeah, I killed the possum with my shovel, I was angry, but whatever" :-| LOL!

I'd love to live like this, but unfortunately I'm sure it's against some city regulation