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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: Garden
Do the worm test when digging for potatoes!
First of all, today’s super “The Quarter Acre Farm” illustration by Jesse “Nemo” Pruet. Second – It is time to plant your potatoes, people if you haven’t done so yet! Okay, maybe you haven’t thought about planting potatoes and now … Continue reading
Quarter Acre Farm Art
For the chapter on Dirt. Making dirt this week – Recipe? Rabbit manure, leaf mold, compost, goose straw…
Late Frost – protecting early blooming trees.
We’ve been facing successive nights of hard frost here in Northern California. I know my mother must be laughing bitterly (she’s in Wyoming and the look of hard February March weather in Wyoming does NOT look anything like the above) … Continue reading
MULCH, Beautiful FREE Mulch!
Isn’t it beautiful? This pile of mulch will replenish all of the decomposed mulch that I put down in the summer. I’ll put it on all the paths, between the trees in the orchard and in all the bare spots … Continue reading
Preparing Potatoes for Planting
If I were asked to identify this thing, I might be tempted to call it a sea anemone, or maybe a slug, or some spotted larval thing. The last thing I would think to call it would be appetizing. It … Continue reading
Springtime – blossoms, pruning, and WIND
This is the pretty by-product of spring pruning. Our apricot tree is the earliest blooming apricot I’ve ever seen and so it was the tree that nagged at me to get the fruit trees taken care of before the tree … 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
The Olives…are down
But what few olives I managed to save are now weeping (with joy, I’m sure) beads of bitterness into the salt they are imbedded in. I “make” olives every year, which means my tree makes olives, some years more, some … Continue reading
When I edit, I think of pruning. When I prune, I think of editing.
I did a lot of pruning yesterday. This monster shrub was about the size of a full grown elephant seal, and looked about as likely to flower. It was time to take charge. As I was sawing, snipping, and snapping, … Continue reading
Raised beds, Italian style
I am back on the Quarter Acre Farm, and except for the drizzling rain and wondering where the pizza Margherita has got to, it is good to get back. One might think a farmer would be ready to leave farming … Continue reading
