Answer to Question #251550 in English for Leonard Hamlet

Question

Farm City (FC) Reading Response 2 Assignment Requirements:

(400 words minimum total)

Answer 1

Turkey, Rabbit, and Pig are the three sections of Farm City. By the time I completed Turkey, I had discovered that not only did I understand what carpenters were doing, but I enjoyed it. I'd gained a deeper understanding of my previous dislike of it. The butchering of animals was connected with full livestock trucks passing by on the highway in by mince. Novella Carpenter gives a better example, one that is more compassionate and responsible. She defines animal sacrifice as honey taken from bees or pig flesh slaughtered. Food, care, and extraordinary life have all been provided for the animals. The farmer has made a profit.

Her food came from caring for them...and she worked hard to do so. Taking care of cattle is a difficult task. Caring for animals on her Ghost Town Farm, a small patch of land in Oakland, California, should be included among Hercules' la.rs. Novella Carpenter faces difficulties Laura Ingalls Wilder never imagined: escaping pigs and turkeys going for the highway, bands of vicious dogs, vegetarian neighbors, and the continual threat of her farm being overtaken by condos. But she also discovers discoveries, which are inextricably linked to the metropolitan setting she has chosen.

Livestock feed has been seen in the trash near vegetable markets and restaurants. Greens were donated to the local Black Panthers, who would use them to make meals for kids as part of a literacy initiative. Fennel picked from the tracks of the 'Vac' train. Carpenter finds support, resources, and mentors in the most unlikely of places. She farms in the city because she wants to and that her methods are entirely urban and unsuitable for actual farming. Yet, you never lose sight of where she is or the possibilities of what she is accomplishing while reading Farm City.