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SUMMARY:Book Reading with Urban Farmer Manny Howard
DESCRIPTION:Urban farmer Manny Howard\, the author of the recent novel My Empire of Dirt\, will be in Pfahler Auditorium on Nov. 11\, at 7:30 PM. Howard is an accomplished magazine writer who has been featured in The New York Times Magazine\, GQ\, Food & Wine\, Travel and Leisure\, Rolling Stone\, and Harper's Bazaar\, among other publications\, and recently was a guest on The Colbert Report. \n \n \n My Empire of Dirt is an account of how Howard decided to build a farm in his backyard as a way to test how ''local'' he could go while living in an urban environment. In line with the recent movement to eat as locally as possible as a way to reduce the impact that transporting food has on our environment\, Howard figured that his backyard would be as local as he could get. He calls the local movement a way ''to save our planet and redeem our twinkie-gorged souls.'' \n \n \n Howard's book is full of wry observations and tales of the miscues that one might expect from a city boy who had never farmed in his life. The narrative includes the harrowing intrusion of a rare Brooklyn tornado that destroyed his crops\, the accidental severing of half of Howard's little finger\, and the battle with a hen that would eat her own eggs before Howard had a chance to retrieve them. These difficulties\, Howard says\, are just a testament to the challenges of eating local\, which he calls ''a\n willful abstinence from convenience and plenty.'' \n \n \n A book signing will follow the event\, and books will be available for purchase
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n\n\n \n Urban farmer Manny Howard\, the author of the recent novel My Empire of Dirt\, will be in Pfahler Auditorium on Nov. 11\, at 7:30 PM. Howard is an accomplished magazine writer who has been featured in The New York Times Magazine\, GQ\, Food &\; Wine\, Travel and Leisure\, Rolling Stone\, and Harper&rsquo\;s Bazaar\, among other publications\, and recently was a guest on The Colbert Report. \n
\n \n My Empire of Dirt is an account of how Howard decided to build a farm in his backyard as a way to test how ''local'' he could go while living in an urban environment. In line with the recent movement to eat as locally as possible as a way to reduce the impact that transporting food has on our environment\, Howard figured that his backyard would be as local as he could get. He calls the local movement a way ''to save our planet and redeem our twinkie-gorged souls.'' \n
\n \n Howard&rsquo\;s book is full of wry observations and tales of the miscues that one might expect from a city boy who had never farmed in his life. The narrative includes the harrowing intrusion of a rare Brooklyn tornado that destroyed his crops\, the accidental severing of half of Howard&rsquo\;s little finger\, and the battle with a hen that would eat her own eggs before Howard had a chance to retrieve them. These difficulties\, Howard says\, are just a testament to the challenges of eating local\, which he calls ''a\n willful abstinence from convenience and plenty.'' \n
\n \n A book signing will follow the event\, and books will be available for purchase\n
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