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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: Guests and Interviews
Happy La Befana!
As we were in Rome on Christmas day (hehehe, can’t believe I can say that) we planned on having a separate Christmas get together with our kids who weren’t in Rome with us. As it happens we planned it for … 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
What do Thomas Jefferson, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Historian/Novelist Virginia Scharff have in common? 3 Things you should know about Gardening!
Virginia Scharff’s new book, The Women Jefferson Loved is out! Yes, you can buy it and be edified, entertained, elucidated, and elevated by reading this book. It is getting wildly complimentary reviews by all the bigwigs and you don’t want … Continue reading
Gardening by the Moon and Stars- Jesse talks planting
Howdy all! This week I will be discussing gardening from an astrological point of view. Most of this knowledge is pretty common, but being extra aware of astrological patterns can have huge payoffs. As many of you are most likely … Continue reading
Yes, my sister’s name is Summer, and it’s her birthday.
It is my sister’s birthday! She is wayyyyyyy older than I am, a fact that when we were kids and she had her birthday she lorded over me – “You are now TWO years younger than I am – baby.” … Continue reading
3 Things Amy Ferris – Woman of Women, author, editor, and hilarity producer extraordinaire -wants to tell you about her husband’s gardening.
Amy Ferris is one of those people you meet, and can’t help but try to be more like them, because don’t we all want to be beautiful and funny and own a gigantic thumping I-want-to-do-good-things-in-the-world heart? Amy is also a … Continue reading
Goslings everywhere want you to know – Amy Ferris is coming to the Quarter Acre Farm!
Amy Ferris, the author of the hilarious memoir, MARRYING GEORGE CLOONEY, is tomorrow’s guest blogger. Hypsipyle can’t wait!
Jesse talks fertilizer
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Suburban Farmer Fridays! Last Friday we installed the above garden (this is it after five weeks or so) so this Friday we will be discussing some of the methods I am using to fertilize … Continue reading
Campaign to Legalize Urban Chicken (this weeks garden denizen) Keeping – CLUCK!
On the front page of the Sacramento Bee this morning there was the banner – City Council considers legalizing urban Chickens. It hardly seems like it could have been worthy of the council’s time to have banned chickens in the … Continue reading
Suburban Farmer Friday with Jesse! Building a small fall garden
Hello everyone and welcome to Suburban Farmer Fridays! From now on, every Friday I will be blogging on basic to intermediate gardening techniques using gardens around the area as examples. Today we’ll be talking about building a small Fall garden. … Continue reading
