About ten years ago UW grad/journalist Novella Carpenter started planting vegetables on a city lot in downtown Oakland. Now a full-on urban farm, Ghost Town Farm is the subject of Carpenter's Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer.

The New York Times called it, "easily the funniest, weirdest, most perversely provocative gardening book I’ve ever read." Tonight, she'll read from Farm City at Town Hall, downstairs.

Town Hall, 7:30 p.m., $5

 

And! Infinite Summer officially kicks off this week.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

The challenge:

Join endurance bibliophiles from around the world in reading Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages ÷ 92 days = 75 pages a week. No sweat.

See the full schedule here. And get cracking: The first discussion (pages 1-63) happens this Friday.