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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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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
A concrete tarp is a useful garden tool
I got this tarp on sale – somewhere- and never have used it for what it is designed for. It is a concrete mixing tarp made with handles on all four corners, waterproof, and very strong so that one can … Continue reading
A super fast, super cute garden cake…and a super fast super cute gosling
Here’s a real quick, and I should be ashamed of myself for doing it because home-made cake is so much nicer and not so hard to do but jeez, every so often you’ve got half an hour to make something … Continue reading
Helpful Friday – John Trowel review -Henry and the Steam Drill…or the Gosling and the Trowel
I picked up this Fiskars Nyglass Trowel in April because I am a sucker for a bargain and it was only a couple of bucks. I also identified in short order that this was a trowel I could leave outside … Continue reading
Baling Twine uses
There’s the old sneering comment one might levy at an unkempt tractor, say, “held together with gum and baling twine”…okay, it’s gum and baling wire, but the sentiment is the same. However the sneering is wrong. Baling twine is one … Continue reading
Uses for livestock panels
Livestock panels are one of the most useful things on the farm (except for the significant other -but livestock panels never complain, on the other hand). I started using the panels when I got tired of; a) trellises rotting b)tomato … Continue reading
Foldable wheelbarrow
When the ultra-efficient weed bucket (see last Friday’s post) doesn’t quite do the trick because what you are pruning/pulling is too long/voluminous to be contained in the bucket, this little wheelbarrow is wonderful. It is ultra-light, in fact, the first … Continue reading
The weed bucket
The five gallon bucket is my favorite weeding accessory; it makes things just a little easier. I am all in favor of making weeding easier. The reason I like the bucket is because you can carry it around one handed. … Continue reading
Helpful Friday? Super dehydrator!
This beauty has changed my (dehydrating) life. I used to have one of those round dehydrators with the plastic stacking trays and the air source that came up through the middle. The trays cracked, they were hard to clean, they … Continue reading
Helpful Friday? Garden Apron
Okay – this is kind of goofy. A sort of no-brainer kind of garden craft. However, no matter how lame it looks, I have found it to be my go-to garden apron. Usually I wear a garden coat with big … Continue reading
