Spring Warren
Spring Warren is the author of two books – Turpentine and The Quarter Acre Farm. She was born in Wyoming, has two children (the eldest, Jesse Pruet, or “Nemo”, illustrated The Quarter Acre Farm) and lives in Northern California. There she writes, makes furniture, and farms her suburban lot.
Spring’s most recent book, The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I Kept the Patio, Lost the Lawn, and Fed My Family for a Year, is “a wise and tender-hearted book that will teach you as much about life as it will about gardening” (Thrity Umrigar, best-selling author of The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven). It is an 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. You can continue the experience of reading this book at The Quarter-Acre Farm Blog.
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Spring’s novel Turpentine (Grove Atlantic, 2008) won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Bronze Medal, was a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book, a New York Center for Independent Publishing Recommended Title, and a Spur Award Finalist.
