Pam Peirce

Pam lectures often on year-round gardening, small space gardening, climate and microclimate for gardeners, eating from a small garden, environmentally friendly pest management, wildly successful plants for Northern California gardens, and other topics.

She will take part in a panel discussion along with several other authors of books about gardening at "Authors Night," an event at the Center For Independent Living in Berkeley. Following are more details:

LOCATION: Ed Roberts Campus of the Center for Independent Living
3075 Adeline Street, Berkeley CA 94703
Directly accessible from the Ashby BART Station

DATE: May 10, 2012

TIME: 6PM-7PM Hosted Reception, 7:15-8:30PM Author Discussion, Q&A and Book Signing

COST: $40 Before May 1ST, $50 At the Door.

FEATURED AUTHORS: Pam Peirce (Golden Gate Gardening), Rosalind Creasy (Edible Landscaping), Wendy Johnson (Gardening at the Dragon's Gate), Willow Rosenthal (The Essential Urban Farmer, Lesley Alward (Accessible Gardens)

For more information or tickets please email Ingrid Jeffers at ijeffers@​cilberkeley.org or call 510-841-4776 ext 3112.

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This summer, Pam will be speaking at branches of the San Francisco Public Library. These free talks will be one hour long and will be titled "Getting the Most from Your Small-Space San Francisco Food Garden'. They will be illustrated by a slide show and followed by sale and signing of both Golden Gate Gardening and Wildly Successful Plants: Northern California.

The library talk dates that have been set up so far are:

Glenn Park Branch, June 23, 3-4 PM

Ortega Branch, July 11, 7-8 PM

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In addition to events relating to gardening, Pam has been taking part in events to publicize the newly released book Ten Years that Shook the City: San Francisco, 1968-1978. She has written an essay in this anthology about her experiences as a writer and editor of Turnover Magazine, a publication on food issues connected to the People's Food System, a group of collectively run wholesale and retail food businesses. You can learn more about the book at http:/​/​www.shapingsf.org/​books.html.

In concert with publication of this book, a walking tour of the Mission District of San Francisco has been set up. There are stations where one can use a cell phone or a smartphone to hear recorded excerpts of essays from the book. Pam's reading is at 20th Street and Alabama, the former site of several Food System businesses. Guided tours are announced at http:/​/​www.shapingsf.org/​tours.html. The next one is May 6, 2012. For more information, you can also call 415-608-9035.