Obsessives - Urban Farming

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).

• Category

  • Food
  • Entertainment
  • Learning & Education

• Directed by:

  • Eric Slatkin

• Produced by:

  • Meredith Arthur
  • Blake Smith

[Deejay Kollar]

on the contrary. The hard part is taking a neglected lot and repurposing it into this garden. Once you get things up and roaring. It's rather easy. She's only got maybe 2000-2500sq ft. which is less than a 10th of an acre. Think of all the stuff you waste time on. T.V, gossip, time eating people. The time is there. You just have to use it wisely. I do what she does but bigger and I work a job 6-7 days a week and I still do all this. 1st step is getting rid of your TV.

[Ziggy Wiggy]

you should watch the movie "earthlings" and "food inc." and I'm sure you'll reconsider her way being inhumane.

[blinkett]

Farming and laziness does not really work together well.

[FischerFamily2011]

You might look into a gutter rain catchment system + timers to a fodder growing system for the goats. Very nutritious and then your feed system would be down to however much it costs for growing seed. I can't post the link, but you can google quartz ridge ranch fodder and see their layout

[Akmal Hakim]

She looks mumbling and eyes are half open when she speaks.That's funny

[Akmal Hakim]

Whoa, nice, but why does she looks sleepy, tired and lazy?

[Patricia Pedreirinha]

"Most people if they had to kill an animal to eat meat, they would not eat it." So true. Being from a family of farmers, and growing up on a farm, I have encountered people so cut off from where their food comes from, that they even refuse to even SEE an animal being killed and gutted but they all love to eat meat, which I find extremely hypocritical. I know how to skin and gut rabbits and chickens, but I have yet to learn how to kill them efficiently. I've asked my mother to teach me.

[dsm985]

240p, shut down everything on my computer unnecessary, cant load shit. FUCK YOU YOUTUBE!

[dsm985]

Why won't it load. I really hate what youtube has become.

-personally, I blame black ppl as well

[Moerasgeest]

I like like this

[shakaama]

you mean like watching plants grow? really?