Ebook: Quarter-acre farm : how I kept the patio, lost the lawn, and fed my family for a year
Author: Warren Spring
- Tags: Farm life -- California -- Davis -- Anecdotes. Organic farming -- California -- Davis -- Anecdotes. Farmers -- California -- Davis -- Biography. Farm life. Farmers. Organic farming. California -- Davis.
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Seal Press
- City: Berkeley, Calif., California--Davis
- Language: English
- epub
When Spring Warren told her husband and two teenage boys that she wanted to grow 75 percent of all the food they consumed for one year--and that she wanted to do it in their yard--they told her she was crazy. She did it anyway. The Quarter-Acre Farm is Warren's account of deciding--despite all resistance--to take control of her family's food choices, get her hands dirty, and create a garden in her suburban yard. Read more...
Abstract: When Spring Warren told her husband and two teenage boys that she wanted to grow 75 percent of all the food they consumed for one year--and that she wanted to do it in their yard--they told her she was crazy. She did it anyway. The Quarter-Acre Farm is Warren's account of deciding--despite all resistance--to take control of her family's food choices, get her hands dirty, and create a garden in her suburban yard. It's a story of bugs, worms, rot, and failure; of learning, replanting, harvesting, and eating