Book Series
Steve's Books
Poetry, essays, and observations from a life rooted in the soil.
Steve's books are available in limited quantities at our store in Ojai. For a signed copy shipped to you, reach out through our contact page — Steve responds between farm days. Online ordering is in the works.
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Steve Sprinkel's books are an ongoing series — part poetry, part field notes, part the kind of writing that happens when a farmer who attended Harvard for one year, speaks Spanish, and has composed newsletters and poems in rooms full of moldy seed boxes decides to put it all down on paper.
Each edition wanders through a different territory: endemic bumblebees surveyed by rail across Japan, the crusade of galaxies, and the quiet observations that accumulate over a life spent growing food in the Ojai Valley. The writing is literate, eccentric, and deeply rooted — like the farm itself.
Thirteen editions so far, each one paperback, between 40 and 120 pages, and entirely Steve.
I attended Harvard College for only one year due to my innate curiosity.
— Steve Sprinkel
The Editions
13 editions and counting. More titles and covers coming soon.
Bumblebees of Japan
A Railway Survey of Fourteen Endemic Species, Selected New Koans, Bon Mots, and Waka Poetry
2019
It's Too Late to Be in a Hurry
Poetry Despite the Pandemic
Lanihuli Street
Little Barrels of Watery Thunder
While Galaxies Crusade
2023
Your Hair Will Turn Blonde If You Shop Here Long Enough
More editions will be added as covers and titles are gathered.
About the Author
Steve Sprinkel farms 12 CCOF-certified acres in Ojai, California. He is president of the Ojai Center for Regenerative Agriculture, a former associate editor at Acres USA, and has worked in organic certification and policy from Carpinteria to the UN Codex Alimentarius. He holds a degree in Literature from UC Santa Barbara and writes with the same restless curiosity he brings to everything — from soil biology to waka poetry.
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