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Meeting Bay Area Rock Star of Vegetable Gardening Pam Peirce
By roystahl | July 4, 2008
I have read many gardening books, but the one that I became the most fond of was Golden Gate Gardening by Pam Peirce. Pam took the time to write a vegetable gardening book that was customized for vegetable gardeners in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Having moved around and been involved in gardening since I was a child, I knew that when I got to Half Moon Bay that I was going to be challenged in vegetable gardening. All the lessons that I had learned in the midwest and Arizona and Southern California where not going to work in the Bay Area. After a few miserable failures, I searched for books and was lucky enough to find Pam Peirce’s book.
I read to book in bed, I took it out with me to the garden. I would use it to answer my wife’s questions. My respect for Pam had grown to the point where see was a Rock Star of Gardening in my eyes.
Last weekend the local edible gardening club had invited her to speak at a meeting. I jumped at the opportunity and took my worn, dirt covered book in tow and sat listening to her wonderful talk. Afterwards I took my book up and had her sign it. Also because I know how authors get paid by publishers, I purchased her second book and had her sign that too.
I was also glad to see that I was not the only one that appreciated Pam’s work as nearly 50 people showed up and most lined up to get her signature as well.
It was also nice to sit down and talk with Pam about some of the oddities of this years growing season and share gardening stories. She matched the person that I had envisioned in my mind and was very pleasant to talk with. Vegetable gardening is clearly her passion and her years of experience it self evident.
If you vegetable garden in the Bay Area, you need to read her book. If you want to know what she is up or her views on the current climate and vegetable plantings, you can follow her blog at Golden Gate Gardener or if you are more old fashion you can follow her columns in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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