The Quarter Acre Farm

To be frank, grad school was a mixed bag for me. I was thrown into a quirky cohort prone to too much cross-pollination (ahem) and snarkiness (oh wait--is that *every* grad school experience?). However, one great thing came out of grad school--my friendship with Spring Warren.

I don't really remember how the friendship started, but by the time I was in Taiwan a year after graduation, we were corresponding regularly. We seemed to be going through the exact same struggles with writing and publishing, and then we both won the same writing award and had our books (her novel is called Turpentine. Check it out here.) published within a month of each other. Now, ten years later, we are in daily contact. I think our friendship is akin to two mothers who experienced pregnancy and child-rearing together and are forever bonded.

However, while I'm still tapping away at my second book, Spring's is due out this winter. She turned her suburban yard into a full-on farm, which she then subsisted on for over a year (I was a happy beneficiary of many yummy vegetables too). And now she's written a book of essays, illustrated by her son (a fantastically talented artist--check out his facebook fanpage here) about her adventures with the "Quarter Acre Farm."

She keeps a daily blog about the trials and tribulations on the farm. On Thursdays, she asks a guest blogger to talk about three things they know about gardening. If you want to see what a brown-thumb (um, me) has to say, check it out here:


http://www.thequarteracrefarm.com/

(above picture is from Spring's blog)