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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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Category Archives: Critters
Hypsipyle gets down and dirty…
Hypsipyle discovered something very, very nice – in goose terms, anyway. She discovered that earthworms enjoy the space between the muddy, muddy ground and the layer of straw in her pen, and if she burrows deeply under that straw she … Continue reading
Why farmgirls shouldn’t get their toenails painted red!
Apparently the shade is not “wicked pink” but “cherry tomato red.” Collecting eggs in my bathrobe and rubber muck sandals- Hypsipyle went after my toes and I almost threw all the eggs in the air!
Kwantu!!!!
No, no…don’t panic. She’s not dead, though that is just what I thought when I looked over from where I was working on the NE corner of the farm. I almost had a heart attack, and then would have looked … Continue reading
Hypsipyle – injured again.
If Hypsipyle was a kid, I’m sure Child Protective Services would be investigating us. If Hypsipyle was a kid, she’d be the kid who continually stuck her head through the balustrades on the staircase, then, after the firemen had freed … Continue reading
Hypsipyle’s at the door and she wants to weed!
It is the commencement of weed season at the Quarter Acre Farm. All the rain is promoting rampant grass where one does not want grass, not to mention the horrifyingly prolific vine that we refer to as velcro plant not … Continue reading
RATS!
I recently went to a benefit for Hedgebrook where I heard Leslie Larson read from Breaking Out of Bedlam. It was wonderful, and after the reading I spoke with Leslie and after speaking with Leslie I read her entire book … Continue reading
Doing it different on The Quarter Acre Farm.
I’m trying to get used to writing on the new Quarter Acre site…but it is all so – different. While the site is sleeker, more organized, I, as is usual when working with something new, feel like Mr. Magoo bumbling … Continue reading
Why does this giant gosling look so happy?
Because she’s been freed from the tyranny of the down-plucker! Unfortunately things got worse before they got better under the rubber billed geriatric duck’s regime. As we were working on segregating the waterfowl’s sleeping quarters the duck must have sensed … Continue reading
Save Hypsipyle!
Taking care of Hypsipyle is the number one order of things this week. See her frowzy feathers? That is due to the half blind geriatric duck who tortures the now giant gooseling. Hypsipyle gives the dreaded duck a wide berth … Continue reading
Hypsipyle wants OUT!
No matter how lovely the straw is in the goose pen, Hypsipyle prefers to be out with the humans and lets out a dinosaur (as I imagine) squawk/bellow anytime she sees her people emerge from the house. She didn’t much … Continue reading
