a dramatic event causes Alexis to question everything
Yet modern food also kills--diabetes and heart disease are on the rise everywhere on earth
draw from her aunt Bec's hard-won wisdom and free herself from the burden that destroyed so many others
a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan
he had a relationship with a Mexican girl
The Quarter-Acre Farm demystified a dramatic event causes AlexisWhen 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