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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: Recipes
Fava Beans with Preserved Lemon
Fava season continues! We shelled about 350 pods in very short order (the key? One to-be-diner slices the pods with a paring knife, while the other shells). This time I paired the fava beans (simmered in water for just about … Continue reading
Fava beans with artichoke hearts and garlic…on pasta…with tomatoes…and parmesan!
It is fava season, and oh, how I love favas. It is also artichoke season…and how I love artichokes! It is also garlic season – and how I love…(I adore eating). Scapes are rising from the heart of the plant, … Continue reading
Chocolate Covered Matzoh…(I wish I had grown the ingredients, but sometimes you just gotta splurge!)
I hope it isn’t too late. It could be that every single box of matzoh has been taken…but I’ll bet not. You still have time to pick some up – and while you’re at it, grab some semi-sweet chocolate, some … Continue reading
Cheeeesey Chard Grilled Sandwich
The next time you’re making a grilled cheese sandwich – fill ‘er up with chard first! I’ve been experimenting with using the tons of chard growing on the farm right now and one of my favorite ways is to pile … Continue reading
Preserved Lemons with Olives
My olives are ready – shrivelled, salty, meaty – how I love the things. I didn’t think I could like them any better, but then I combined them with my preserved lemons – tangy, salty, fresh…the two go together like … Continue reading
Baked potatoes with caramelized onions
Today may be the last drizzly cold day, for at least a week, in Northern California. So tonight might be the perfect evening to make some baked potatoes with caramelized onions. I’m always surprised that these are soooooo good because … Continue reading
On a miserably cold, rainy day it is great to have the stove going for a bit of auxilary heat. (It’s hard to get it warm enough for me. I’m waiting for summertime and 95 degrees when I am perfectly … Continue reading
Limoncello- From Lemon to Bottle
The finished – though still mellowing – product. I’ve appended the last steps to the end of this previous blog in order that all the information can be found on one entry – so if you’ve already read up to … Continue reading
Lovely lemony Limoncello!
Isn’t it pretty? It is, and it will make you prettier, too…at closing time, anyway, for this lemony yellow jar of stuff is actually lemon peels and VODKA. It is on my counter, even as I write this, melding together … Continue reading
Third cutting broccoli frittata
I believe in LOTS of greens, and just enough egg and cheese to glue the greens together in my frittatas, so at first it seems like the relatively little bit of egg is NOT EVER going to cover the broccoli. But to make this work you must believe it will and keep patting the broccoli down, stirring a little, patting, stirring, patting, until the broccoli is indeed covered with the egg mixture. Continue reading
