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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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Tag Archives: duck
Why does this giant gosling look so happy?
Because she’s been freed from the tyranny of the down-plucker! Unfortunately things got worse before they got better under the rubber billed geriatric duck’s regime. As we were working on segregating the waterfowl’s sleeping quarters the duck must have sensed … Continue reading
Save Hypsipyle!
Taking care of Hypsipyle is the number one order of things this week. See her frowzy feathers? That is due to the half blind geriatric duck who tortures the now giant gooseling. Hypsipyle gives the dreaded duck a wide berth … Continue reading
Hey! It’s Hay Day! (Rather, Aw, it’s Straw!)
When you are a brilliant white goose whose feathers are not only of a snowy hue but also which flutter poetically in the wind, ruffle when your wings beat the air, curl coyly about your orangey pink scaled ankles, and … Continue reading
Saturday gosling – hutch life with Kwantu
Watching L fill up the duck pond in the morning. Waiting in line for a drink at the water fountain. Hypsipyle rushes the gate. Kwantu irritated at the pushiness. Kwantu used to put up with all of Hypsipyle’s pushing and … Continue reading
Tiger beset by gosling – continued
Poor Tiger! He is still being buffaloed by the downy buffalo herself- Hypsipyle. If he wants to sit with us on the porch he ends up being treed by the gosling. Walking through the yard, Tiger will wait until Hypsipyle’s … 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
Why is this gosling still in the house?
Obviously, Tiger wants to know that as well. Or maybe he’s just wondering why he’s not in the house enjoying canapes with the rest of us. First off, the gosling’s name is not canape, or snack, or morsel, though both … Continue reading
Goosteau – R.I.P
We lifted Goosteau from a tray of peeping end-run ducklings at the Feed Store in Winters over eight years ago. He looked more like a tiny, fuzzy dinosaur than a goose at that point, only days old and his leathery … Continue reading
Watching Geese Far from Home
When my sister got married she brought her husband to spend Christmas with our family. After they’d gone home she reported he said, “Streeters are weird, they just sit around and watch cats.” Of course we did. Boxes, tissue paper, … Continue reading
Jeanette
Just about the time it seems like everything is on even keel at the farm, something happens to dump us in the drink. Today it was Jeannette. I went into the back yard and Jeannette the goose staggered out from … Continue reading
