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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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From sprinkling to weeping- that’s irrigation talk, btw.
My irrigation system has, to this point, consisted of a series of sprinkling emitters. That has been great except for two things. 1) The sprinklers sprinkle a variable area depending on the water pressure and, it seems: the lunar calendar, … Continue reading
We should know where our food comes from before we put it in our mouths…
We should know where our food comes from before we put it in our mouths. The events of the last five years, be it the salmonella scare, the videos of sick cattle at the slaughterhouse, e. coli in peanut butter, … Continue reading
OMG, Spring has ANOTHER pile of **** in her driveway!
Tuesday’s Garden denizen of the week is not the pile of ****, instead it is the neighbors who put up with all the stuff that comes into the Quarter Acre Farm that seems to spend a period of time on … Continue reading
Wed. Recipe – For Disaster! Consumers choose environmentally disastrous packing over compostable bag because of crinkling?!
I’m not a cheerleader for Sun Chips (though I could eat a bagful of dirt if it was crunchy and salty enough) nor am I a big fan of Frito Lay (though one of my fav childhood memories was eating … Continue reading
How Not to Take an Author Photo -The Quarter Acre Farm Photo Out-takes.
My author photo is due to the press today which forced me to drag out my tripod and take a large number of photos of myself. Why not have someone else do it? Because I am too embarrassed to let … Continue reading
No tear onions
You remember the canning superheroes – able to chop a mountain of onions and not shed a tear? Well, I have to admit, the incredible lack of boo-hooing doesn’t actually have anything to do with being super, it has more … Continue reading
Helpful Friday – hot tub
Forget a coke, I’d like to buy the world a hot tub. Nothing makes this farmer happier than bobbing gently about in a pool of 104 degree water. As a creature of the night, mornings can be painful for me. … Continue reading
Hidden Gosling
Hiding her light under a bushel in honor of National Dog Day.
Saving seeds
I am a saver. While I make a point to save things as part of the R’s credo- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – I have a itchy feeling I try not to think about too often that at heart I am … Continue reading
