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Paperback The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I Kept the Patio, Lost the Lawn, and Fed My Family for a Year Book

ISBN: 1580053408

ISBN13: 9781580053402

The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I Kept the Patio, Lost the Lawn, and Fed My Family for a Year

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Book Overview

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,...

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