The Garden of Club of Houston hosted the biennial
Julia Picton Wallace Lecture
with Guest Speaker – Christopher Spitzmiller
on November 13, 2024
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Christopher Spitzmiller is known to his friends and Instagram fans as the ultimate weekend farmer, who raises
his own handsome chickens, grows his own flowers, and puts up his own jam, cider, and honey. In this—his first
book written with Clinton Smith—he treats readers to a full year at Clove Brook Farm, his idyllic but always-active country retreat. Naturally
organized into four seasonal sections, and filled with tips on garden-planning, creating seasonal flower arrangements, and living with animals,
A YEAR AT CLOVE BROOK FARM is a timely book as we are all focused making the most of our own homes and gardens—
even if that’s only a row of herbs in a sunny urban window—and it is the the perfect inspiration for anyone
enthralled by the fantasy of full-on farmstead living. Christopher Spitzmiller’s lamps, tableware, and other ceramics are found in every chic A-
list interior, including the White House, and are regularly featured in celebrated publications including Architectural Digest and the
Wall Street Journal. He is on the board of the Garden Conservancy and the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House.
A YEAR AT CLOVE BROOK FARM – Gardening, Tending Flocks, Keeping Bees, Collecting Antiques, and Entertaining Friends
By Christopher Spitzmiller
Written with Clinton Smith
Foreword by Martha Stewart
Hardcover with jacket / 8.5” x 11” / 240 pages / 200 color photographs
$45.00 U.S. / $60.00 Canadian / £35.00 U.K.
ISBN: 978-0-8478-6974-9 / Rizzoli New York / Release date: MARCH 2021
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