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My Empire of Dirt How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm

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ISBN-10: 1416585168

ISBN-13: 9781416585169

Edition: 2010

Authors: Manny Howard

List price: $32.99
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An entertaining and informative account of one man's attempt to live off the food he grows in his backyard in Brooklyn.
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Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 4/27/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Manny Howard is a veteran of the magazine world, having written and/or edited for New York, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Details, Men's Journal, Men's Health, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Us Weekly, National Geographic, and Travel & Leisure, among many others. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, two children, and a dwindling number of farm animals.

Prologue: The Raft
What Are People For?
Next Actions
The Stranger
Founding Fish
When the Going Was Good
The One That Got Away
The Control of Nature
The Good Worker
Meat Rabbit
The Ramp
The Man Who Would Be King
The City Is a Crust
Tackling Daylight
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Taking from Trespasser
Chicken Run
A Chicken Named Crazy
Get Out
Collapse
The Price of Chicken
Rabbit Season
The Voice from the Whirlwind
Yard Bird
The First Supper
The Restraint of Beasts
The Winter Palace
Epilogue
Acknowledgments