Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition

· Chelsea Green Publishing
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About this ebook

“Eliot is the reason I’m cooking. . . . I’ve followed that path because Eliot made it possible, and exciting, to farm in the four seasons.”—Dan Barber, chef

“There is hardly a more well-known or well-respected name among organic farmers than Eliot Coleman.”—Civil Eats


Learn simple season-extending techniques for growing vegetables chemical free all year long with the updated 2nd edition of this expert organic gardening guide.


If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat.

Inside, you’ll also learn:
  • Composting techniques
  • Simple Mineral Amendments
  • Planning and preparing your garden site
  • Seeds for four seasons
  • How to build cold frames, high tunnels, and mobile greenhouses
  • How to cope with snow
  • How to create a root cellar and other storage techniques

This innovative vegetable gardening book includes new ideas from Coleman’s winter-vegetable pilgrimage to the kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine. This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter.

“The man, the farmer, the legend, is Eliot Coleman.”—The Atlantic
“Eliot is the reason I’m cooking. . . . I’ve followed that path because Eliot made it possible, and exciting, to farm in the four seasons.”—Dan Barber, chef “There is hardly a more well-known or well-respected name among organic farmers than Eliot Coleman.”—Civil Eats Learn simple season-extend...

About the author

Eliot Coleman has over fifty years experience in all aspects of organic farming, including field vegetables, greenhouse vegetables, rotational grazing of cattle and sheep, and range poultry. He is the author of The New Organic Grower, Four-Season Harvest, and The Winter Harvest Handbook, as well as the instructional workshop DVD Year-Round Vegetable Production with Eliot Coleman. Coleman and his wife, Barbara Damrosch, presently operate a commercial year-round market garden, in addition to horticultural research projects, at Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine.
Eliot Coleman has over fifty years experience in all aspects of organic farming, including field vegetables, greenhouse vegetables, rotational grazing of cattle and sheep, and range poultry. He is the author of The New Organic Grower, Four-Season Harvest, and The Winter Harvest Handbook, as well ...

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