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Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman are America’s foremost organic gardeners—and authorities. Barbara is the author of The Garden Primer, and Eliot wrote the bible for organic gardening, The New Organic Grower. Today they are the face of the locavore movement, working through their extraordinary Four Season Farm in Maine. And now they’ve written the book on how to grow what you eat, and cook what you grow.The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook is two books in one. It’s a complete four-season cookbook with 120 recipes from Barbara, a master cook as well as master gardener, who shows how to maximize the fruits—and vegetables—of your labors, from Stuffed Squash Blossom Fritters to Red Thai Curry with Fall Vegetables to Hazelnut Torte with Summer Berries.And it’s a step-by-step garden guide that works no matter how big or small your plot, with easy-to-follow instructions and plans for different gardens. It covers size of the garden, nourishing the soil, planning ahead, and the importance of rotating crops—yes, even in your backyard. And, at the core, individual instructions on the crops, from the hardy and healthful cabbage family to fourteen essential culinary herbs.Eating doesn’t get any more local than your own backyard.

"Brimming with ingenuity, hope, and eminently practical advice, The Winter Harvest Handbook is an indispensable contribution."—Michael Pollan"Useful, practical, sensible, and enlightening information for the home gardener."—Martha StewartWith The Winter Harvest Handbook, everyone can have access to organic farming pioneer Eliot Coleman’s 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 Coleman's The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.Inside, you'll find Coleman's clear, concise, and meticulous details [including many accompanying illustrations] on:Greenhouse construction and maintenancePlanting schedulesCrop managementHarvesting practicesMarketing methodsColeman’s 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 "just can’t be done.""The incomparable Eliot Coleman is back."—The New York Times"A Renaissance man for a new generation."—Dan Barber

"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 season-extending techniques and eat the best food—garden fresh and chemical free—all year long, with little effort or expense.

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 techniquesSimple Mineral AmendmentsPlanning and preparing your garden siteSeeds for four seasonsHow to build cold frames, high tunnels, and mobile greenhousesHow to cope with snowHow to create a root cellar and other storage techniquesAnd much, much more!

 

Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged 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 is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest 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

To learn more about the possibility of a four-season farm, please visit Coleman''s website www.fourseasonfarm.com.

"Brimming with ingenuity, hope, and eminently practical advice, The Winter Harvest Handbook is an indispensable contribution."—Michael Pollan

"Useful, practical, sensible, and enlightening information for the home gardener."—Martha Stewart

With The Winter Harvest Handbook, everyone can have access to organic farming pioneer Eliot Coleman’s 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 Coleman''s The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.

Inside, you''ll find Coleman''s clear, concise, and meticulous details [including many accompanying illustrations] on:

Greenhouse construction and maintenancePlanting schedulesCrop managementHarvesting practicesMarketing methods

Coleman’s 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 "just can’t be done."

"The incomparable Eliot Coleman is back."—The New York Times

"A Renaissance man for a new generation."—Dan Barber

Updated for its 30th anniversary edition; [This book] remains as relevant as ever. New York Times For anyone with an interest in sustainable growing, this is a must-read. Irish TimesA perennial classic The New Organic Grower isone of the most important farming books available, written byEliot Coleman, a pioneer in the organic farming movement. Now fully illustrated and updated, this 30th Anniversary Edition is a must-have for any farmer or grower.Coleman’s books and innovative methods have helped innumerable organic growers build successful farms in deep accordance with nature. The wisdom in this seminal book holds true even as the modern agricultural canon has grown – in large part due to Coleman’s influence as a wise elder with decades of experience. New information has been included in this edition to showcase the new tools and techniques that Colemant has been developing over the last thirty-five years.The New Organic Grower offers a very approachable and productive form of farming that has proven to work well for the earth and its stewards for centuries. Gardeners working on a hectare or less will find this book especially useful, as it offers proof that small-scale market growers and serious home gardeners can live good lives close to the land and make a profit at the same time. The New Organic Grower is ideal for young farmers just getting started, or gardeners seeking to expand into a more productive enterprise.New material in this edition includes:Beautiful colour photographs throughout, taken by master gardener and author Barbara Damrosch (Eliot’s wife and co-farmer)Updated information throughout on how Eliot’s practices have changed through his experiments over the yearsA new section from Damrosch about incorporating flowers on the small farmMore information on new tools Eliot has invented that don’t appear in any of his other books

“Updated for its 30th anniversary edition; [This book] remains as relevant as ever.”—New York Times Book Review

Since its original publication in 1989, The New Organic Grower has been one of the most important farming books available, with pioneer Eliot Coleman leading the charge in the organic movement in the United States. Now fully illustrated and updated, this 30th Anniversary Edition is a must-have for any agricultural library.

Eliot Coleman’s books and innovative methods have helped innumerable organic farmers build successful farms in deep accordance with nature. The wisdom in this seminal book holds true even as the modern agricultural canon has grown—in large part due to Coleman’s influence as a wise elder with decades of experience. New information has been included in this edition to showcase the new tools and techniques that Eliot has been developing over the last thirty-five years.

Inspired by the European intensive growers, The New Organic Grower, 30th Anniversary Edition, offers a very approachable and productive form of farming that has proven to work well for the earth and its stewards for centuries. Gardeners working on 2.5 acres or less will find this book especially useful, as it offers proof that small-scale market growers and serious home gardeners can live good lives close to the land and make a profit at the same time. The New Organic Grower is ideal for young farmers just getting started, or gardeners seeking to expand into a more productive enterprise.

New material in this edition includes:

Beautiful color photographs throughout, taken by master gardener and author Barbara Damrosch (Eliot’s wife and co-farmer)Updated information throughout on how Eliot’s practices have changed through his experiments over the yearsA new section from Damrosch about incorporating flowers on the small farmMore information on new tools Eliot has invented that don’t appear in any of his other books

 

"I was interested in the environment, farming, science . . . and there was Eliot’s book lying on the shelf. I remember grabbing it, and I just FELL IN. . . . I remember reading it like it was the Bible."—Dan Barber, chef

"Essential rules from a champion of organic growing."—New York TimesNamed to the Civil Eats "2025 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide"“A radical yet timeless understanding of what organic farming is truly about. . . . Only Eliot could bring such clarity and wisdom to the conversation. . . . A must-read for anyone who believes that food can be a force for change. . . . A new classic for the ages.”—Jean-Martin Fortier, author of The Market Gardener; founder, Market Gardener InstituteIn The Self-Fed Farm and Garden, renowned organic grower and best-selling author Eliot Coleman presents the organic method as the self-sustaining system it was meant to be, rooted in soil health care. With clarity and confidence born from years of experience, he shows readers how they can shift to a model that continually recharges the soil with organic matter, thus allowing the soil food web to provide all the nutrients that crops need for healthy growth and excellent yields. Filled with the same groundbreaking spirit of his now-classic The Winter Harvest Handbook—which introduced market gardeners to the simple, low-cost techniques by which they could harvest commercial vegetables all winter long—Coleman now shares his equally simple and dependable low-cost system for creating and maintaining guaranteed pure organic soil fertility that will carry your crop yields to perfection.The self-fed approach combines classic techniques practiced by the pioneers of organic farming, including:• Growing green manure crops year-round and shallowly tilling them into the soil • Growing leguminous plants to add nitrogen • Devising effective crop rotation systems for disease and weed controlImplementing a self-fed system, Coleman explains, saves money and energy, avoids the hassles of acquiring outside organic matter (which can also introduce undesirable incidental pollutants into the soil), and covers everything that needs to be done to maintain soil fertility. Using classic techniques like green manures as a living soil improvement system ultimately allows you alone—not the farm and garden products industry—to be the master of your destiny.“This book steps back from the frantic energy of the marketplace to take a second look at what we mean when we say ‘organic,’ why we need it, and how to do it right.” —Dave Chapman, codirector, Real Organic Project

"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 EatsLearn season-extending techniques and eat the best food—garden fresh and chemical free—all year long, with little effort or expense.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 techniquesSimple Mineral AmendmentsPlanning and preparing your garden siteSeeds for four seasonsHow to build cold frames, high tunnels, and mobile greenhousesHow to cope with snowHow to create a root cellar and other storage techniquesAnd much, much more! Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged 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 is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter."The man, the farmer, the legend, is Eliot Coleman."—The AtlanticTo learn more about the possibility of a four-season farm, please visit Coleman's website www.fourseasonfarm.com.

ERNTEN SIE KNACKIGES BIOGEMÜSE JETZT AUCH IM WINTER!Der Bio-Pionier und erfolgreiche Biogärtner Eliot Coleman erklärt, wie engagierte Biogärtner im Winter Ihr Gemüse ohne zusätzliche Heizkosten anbauen können! Sie erfahren, welche Gemüsesorten am besten geeignet sind, was eine kluge Fruchtfolge ist und wie der Schutz vor Kälte im ungeheizten Gewächshaus oder im Folientunnel funktioniert.Ausführliche Tabellen mit Sortenempfehlungen und durchdachten Anbauplänen zeigen übersichtlich, wann Sie welche Sorten am besten auspflanzen und ernten können. Dank des umfangreichen Registers können Sie die Inhalte jederzeit nachschlagen.Ausgehend von alten, europäischen Anbautechniken zeigt Coleman unzählige Möglichkeiten auf, die Wintermonate für die Gemüseernte auf ökologische Art und Weise zu nutzen. Eine europäische Klimakarte, Weblinks zu Tageslängentabellen für den gesamten deutschen Sprachraum und lokale Bezugsquellen in D/A/CH bringen das alte Wissen zurück in mitteleuropäische Gärten und Felder. Frischer Spinat im November? Knackiger Salat im Februar? Die Winterpause für Ihren Biogarten ist vorbei, denn Kälte sorgt für besonders zartes und aromatisches Gemüse. Seine Ideen und anschaulichen Anleitungen sind eine wertvolle Inspirationsquelle für engagierte Biogärtner, Biobauern und Selbstversorger.•das Standardwerk für Selbstversorger, Profigärtner und engagierte Hobbygärtner•der USA-Bestseller Winterharvest Handbook jetzt auf Deutsch•erprobtes Wissen und jahrelang gesammelte Erfahrungswerte vom Experten•für den kleinen Biogarten, den Selbstversorgergarten oder die Biolandwirtschaft•wichtige Grundregeln und Techniken detailliert und verständlich erklärt•neueste Erkenntnisse zum Winteranbau im eigenen Biogarten•zahlreiche Farbfotos, Grafiken und Anbaupläne