earthfarmer
Year-Round Vegetable Production Using
Organic Practices Eliot Coleman is one of America's most innovative
farmers. His determination to grow organic vegetable crops during the
winter for profit in Maine has started a revolution among small farmers
and market gardeners throughout the temperate climate regions of the
world. Thanks to Eliot Coleman's books such as Four Season Harvest and
The Winter Harvest Handbook many Virginia farmers now look forward to
the fall as a time to get started in crop production. Or-ganic growers
are learning that there are often better opportunities for economic
success in the cool off season than there are in the warm summer months.
Quite a few members of the Virginia Association for Biological Farming
remember hearing Eliot speak about organic farming practices used by
small farmers in Europe at one of the Sustainable Agriculture
Conferences held in Charlottesville back in the 1980s. His first book,
The New Organic Grower had a huge influence on thousands of aspiring
organic farmers. It gave everyone practical systems to follow in organic
vegetable production that really worked. This book brought a great deal
of new credibility to organic vegetable production by creating order
out of chaos.
