My first book, Turpentine: A Novel
Visit me on the web at www.springwarren.com.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
MARCH 5 Authors on the Move Sacramento Public Library
MARCH 24 Tag Team Reading: Spring Warren and Eileen Rendahl at Borders in Davis, CA
MARCH 25 Books Inc 7 PM, Berkeley, CA
MARCH 26 Book Passage 1PM Ferry Building, San Francisco
APRIL 7 Brown Bag Lecture UCDavis
APRIL 29 Avid Reader 7:30PM Davis
MAY 1 Avid Reader 4:00 PM Sacramento
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Spring Warren lives in a small city in California. The lot her house is on is a little less than a quarter acre in size. She calls it the Quarter Acre Farm not only because of the Geese, ducks, chickens, and rabbits who live there, but because she grows most of her family's food in her yard.
The book Spring has written about becoming a farmer on a small scale, The Quarter Acre Farm, will be coming out with Seal Press this spring. Until then, you can see here what Spring is doing on the Farm at the moment.
MONDAYS feature a garden to-do list for the week
TUESDAY she'll write about this week's garden denizen
WEDNESDAY is recipe day
THURSDAY she'll feature interviews with gardeners, farmers, cheesemakers, cooks and food lovers.
FRIDAY is helpful Friday with products, how-to's and help for the suburban farmer. Tags
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Hello Spring! I just did a book reading at the Avid Reader and see you have one coming up.
My book is The Herbal Kitchen and I live here in Davis, we should do an event together!
Kami McBride
That’s a great idea, Kami – we should talk!
Hi Spring, I look forward to coming to your reading Friday APril 29, i will put a post on my facebook page!
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=537935102#!/KamiMcBride
Hi Spring,
We would like to turn our yard into a garden and would like to enlist the help of your son for a design if he is still designing gardens. I am going out today to see if I can find a copy of your book “Quarter-Acre Farm”or I will order it online. My mother and I are quite interested and can’t wait to get started. Please e-mail me or I can also send you my number. We saw the big write up in the Sacramento Bee.
Thank you so much for your help,
Carol Wood
Hi Carol,
Yes, Jesse does still design gardens! You can reach him at jlpruet@live.com – Let me know if this doesn’t work and we’ll go from there. (I always forget to take before pictures, then really, really wish I did… If you manage, I’d love to see both before and after!)
Hello Spring!
I have been contacted with a request of you and I doing an event together.
What is a good way to reach you, so maybe we can talk about it! Give me a call or email me if you have a moment!
Best,
Kami
kami@livingawareness.com
707-446-1290
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Just read your book cover to cover. I really enjoyed it and am glad to see some pictures of your garden and critters here. I just moved to a neighboring small town in your area from Alaska and am enjoying all the fruit trees and amazing plants sprouting from our yard, the orchards and farms. I’m looking forward to setting up my own garden and your book has inspired me to jump right in – I keep thinking I need to wait and see, learn about this crazy clay/dirt, the heat, scary bugs etc… Thank you for sharing your story. Since I don’t write, I’d like to recommend a writer from AK, Heather Lende. She also has a great writing style and her topics of life, death, gardening, pets, family, outdoors might be interesting to you as well. Thank you again.
Thanks for the kind words, Kate – and good luck with the garden, let me know how it goes! I’ll be sure to look up Heather Lende, always on the lookout for great writing
I began producing food for myself about six years ago with a few tomatoes and herbs. I was the first and it seems almost the only person that I know that does. My yard does not have the scale of yours, but this year I planted 103 plants. Tomatoes, green beans, onions, bell pepper, corn, hot peppers, eggplant and corn. I love the taste of a tomato right off the vine… grocery stores can never compare.
Anyway, I recently found your website and wanted to let you know that I am enjoying the information. Thank you for sharing a part of your quarter acre farm.
Hi, you seem like a nice person. I notice you are in California. Just a heads-up, I read this blog from another Cali resident. FYI.
http://pirate.is/alangreenspan/2011/06/30/global-geiger-meter-alert/
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I’d be happy to guest blog, Chuck. Let me know what you’re thinking of and I’ll send you some words.
Thanks for asking!
Best,
spring