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As founder of The Warren Report, Warren Etheredge hosts over 250 events every year,
a podcast and television series. The Warren Report promotes "slow culture" through commentary, outreach,
events and education. Our principle: Smarter audiences make a better world!
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
NOVELLA CARPENTER
and
FARM CITY: THE EDUCATION
OF AN URBAN FARMER
Location:
Tom Douglas’ Palace Ballroom
2100 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121 (map)
Time: 6:30 p.m. • Cost: $25
After graduating from the UW and studying journalism at Berkeley (under Michael Pollan), Novella moved into a ramshackle house in inner city Oakland. Next door was a weed-choked, garbage strewn abandoned lot, but Novella closed her eyes and pictured heirloom tomatoes, a beehive and a chicken coop. What started out as a few egg laying chickens led to turkeys, geese, rabbits, a few Nigerian dwarf goats and two three-hundred-pound pigs. Raised vegetable beds and fruit trees share the corner with homeless people, prostitutes and some truly unforgettable characters (both animal and human) as urban meets rural in the most surprising ways. For all of us who have ever considered leaving it all behind and becoming a farmer, consider her story both a humorous cautionary tale and a call to action.
The Good Life: books for better living series will be interactive evenings of conversation with authors on tools for creating “the good life.” These events will take place at Tom Douglas’s Palace Ballroom where we will gather together to enjoy appetizers and beverages and an onstage interview of the author by Warren Etheredge of The Warren Report; and our evenings will end with a booksigning and a bit of award winning Theo Chocolate — plus you get the featured book to take home!
Tickets for the events listed are $25 per person — yes, less than the cost of the book! A copy of each author’s new book is included in the ticket price as are appetizers and bites of Theo Chocolate that evening. There will be a cash bar available.
TO PURCHASE TICKETS
by email: contact us l by phone: 206-632-2419 l or purchase online