-
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
-
-
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
almonds harvest backyard chickens birds aluminum foil cherries potatoes netting book broccolli sun dried tomatoes anchovies eggs parmesan chard cherry tomatoes chickpeas Cranberry beans double digging duck ducks peanuts mobile duck doctor metzer farms eggs fava beans fava leaves cream sauce garlic green onions walnuts Figs clearing the front yard frost garden goose and duck eggs collecting yellow cake golden bread goose bite goose Jeannette Pepin gosling gosling down camouflage heat hens home-made croutons melon readiness Melon ripeness melons disney tomatoes mickey cukes mulch Peas peppers watering zucchini plums potatoes pregnant cat wyoming kittens Quarter Acre Farm - the Book rabbit manure rabbits rain rats recipe The Book tomato tomatoes tour de cluck zucchini noodlesArchives
Recent Comments
- Spring on About
- Spring on About
- Bernadette Egan on About
- Jesse Loren on Five ways to protect plants and get them in the ground early
- Madgew on Five ways to protect plants and get them in the ground early
Meta
-
Author Archives: Spring
GREEN CHILE!
I’ve got a lot of chiles right now…the trouble is they don’t have really thick skins, so when I roast them, the skins don’t just slip off. They did seem to have enough skin, however, I worried it might be … Continue reading
BEANS
They’re all done now – ONE job finished until this job last year. I really did myself proud with the pure volume of legumes I stuck in the ground, then yanked out again. After I yanked out the piles (may … Continue reading
PIZZAS!
This is such a great time of year to make pizzas! The garden practically begs you to reap, roast and throw the proceeds on a bed of dough. Need some ideas for toppings? One of my favorites is sun dried … Continue reading
The busiest time of year.
Some might think the busiest time of the year is Christmas, but for the Quarter Acre Farmer it is most likely late summer. Late summer is over-lap time. Some plants are producing at their heaviest right now – tomatoes, eggplants, … Continue reading
I’M GOING TO THE WINTER’S LIBRARY, TOMORROW!
THANK YOU, DEBRA DEANGELO! Spring Warren transformed her yard in a typical Davis neighborhood into her own micro-farm. Kami McBride learned to grow and harvest her own plants and herbs to keep her family healthy. What do they have in … Continue reading
Easiest, best tomato sauce ever!
To make this sauce you need three categories of ingredients, the first of which is- I’ll bet you guessed – tomatoes. The second category I call something sweet (ish). Something sweet takes the edge off the acidic tomatoes. The sweetness … Continue reading
Come one, come all!
Cool Davis Initiative invites you to reserve now. A Sustainable Living Workshop: How Much is Enough? Is it possible to live an ecologically balanced life that unleashes personal creativity, fosters social action, and connects us to the natural … Continue reading
Zucchini Noodles!
Why are these pottery tools in my kitchen? Because I cannot seem to keep track of my zucchini. They go from pinkie size to the size of my forearm in a blink – and there is only so much zucchini … Continue reading
