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 ornamental plants for Northern California gardens, learning to identify garden plants, and other topics.

Recent venues included the national convention of the Herb Society of America, the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show, Pollinate Farm and Garden (in Oakland), Sloat Garden Center in SF, Kentfield, and Pleasant Hill, the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, several branches of the San Francisco Public Library, and training or enrichment programs for a couple of Bay Area Master Gardener programs.

Pam was present at a number of events in the fall of 2023, to celebrate and introduce the 4th, 30th Anniversary, edition of Golden Gate Gardening and contiued the celebration into 2024 with events in San Francisco, the East Bay, and as far south as Monterey. She has so far scheduled one public Zoom event for 2025, with more events, both Zoom and In Person sure to follow. 

On February 13, 2025, 12:30-2 Pam will present a Zoom talk called "Love Your Lemon" on planting and growing lemons. It will be primarily geared to San Francisco, though most of the information, including basic care, pruning, and control of common pests, is pertinent wherever lemons are grown. The talk is sponsored by Just One Tree.org, a project of Urban Resource Sytems. I will post a link to register as soon as I have it. The talk will be recorded, so it will be available after it happens, but you will need to attend to ask questions.

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Below are links to two of her recent public Zoom presentations:

On November 20,2021,  Pam gave a Zoom Webinar for Sloat Garden Center on growing food in the Secret Season--January through March. In the middle of this talk, the power in our house went off briefly. She got back on to Zoom and finished the talk. Good thing it was a brief outage!

https://www.sloatgardens.com/webinar-secret-season-edible-gardening-with-pam-peirce

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On February 26th, 2022, Pam gave a Zoom presentation for Sloat Garden Center on eating from a small food garden, that is, coordinating what you can grow with what you will eat.

https://sloatgardens.com/webinar-eating-well-from-the-garden/

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In addition to events relating to gardening, Pam has been taking part in events to publicize the 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. For more information, you can also call 415-608-9035.

In June of 2012, the publisher of Ten Years that Shook the City: 1968-1978 was given an award by the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. The award, which was for "Contribution to Publishing," was part of their 81st California Book Awards.

For those seeking to study Turnover Magazine and read Pam's srticles on food history and on nutrition, a complete set of issues is in the history room of the San Francisco Public Library.