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If we are going to create a good, clean, fair food system, we've got to learn how to grow affordable, local food year-round and make a living at it. Eliot Coleman knows more about this than anyone I've met. Here he gives the detailed information needed to make it work. The only way to learn it better would be to follow him around for a few seasons. And he won't let you.--Josh Viertel, President, Slow Food USA
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Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that's taken hold throughout the UK and north America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine. Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have access to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters. Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this new book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses. Coleman offers clear, concise details on greenhouse construction and maintenance, planting schedules, crop management, harvesting practices, and even marketing methods in this complete, meticulous, and illustrated guide. Readers have access to all the techniques that have proven to produce higher-quality crops on Colemanis own farm. His painstaking research and experimentation with more than 30 different crops will be valuable to small farmers, homesteaders, and experienced home gardeners who seek to expand their production seasons. A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical model for supplying fresh, locally grown produce during the winter season, even in climates where conventional wisdom says it ijust canit be done.i
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
More for commercial gardeners than home gardeners,
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This review is from: Eliot Coleman's Winter Harvest Handbook: Four-Season Vegetable Production for the 21st Century: Deep Organic Four-Season Vegetable Production for the 21st Century (Paperback)
While I did get some new information I feel the book would be more useful to commercial scale vegetable production, not my little 4 x 4 beds perched on a granite ledge in Maritime Canada.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not meant for northen alberta,
This review is from: Eliot Coleman's Winter Harvest Handbook: Four-Season Vegetable Production for the 21st Century: Deep Organic Four-Season Vegetable Production for the 21st Century (Paperback)
I bought this book with dreams of gardening in -40 weather. A bit too ambitious I guess. If you are in the states or somewhere with warmer winters then you might want to give this book a try.
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Winter Harvest Handbook,
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This review is from: Eliot Coleman's Winter Harvest Handbook: Four-Season Vegetable Production for the 21st Century: Deep Organic Four-Season Vegetable Production for the 21st Century (Paperback)
Eliot Coleman is an inspiration. He writes on the subject in an easy to read and informative fashion that makes me desperate to get outside and start working. A bit of history, some personal experience, and a lot of information on where to start, where to go, and what to expect. Great book.
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