"Healthy Garden Guide," American HomeStyle and Gardening, October 1996

 "Year Long Harvest," American HomeStyle and Gardening, November/December 1996

 "Gardening Q & A," American HomeStyle and Gardening, Regular column from April 1995 to May 1999

 "A Reasonable Garden," Included in A Reasonable Life, by Ferenc Mate

 "Support Dedicated Organic Farmers". Mother Earth News, August/September 2005.

 Can Organics Save the Family Farm?, The Rake, September 2004, www.rakemag.com.

 "Nature Knows Best". Organic Gardening, September/October 2002.

 Beyond Organic, Mother Earth News, December/January 2002

"NEW IDEAS, especially those that directly challenge an established orthodoxy, follow a familiar path. First, the orthodoxy says the new idea is rubbish. Then the orthodoxy attempts to minimize the new idea's increasing appeal. Finally, when the new idea proves unstoppable, the orthodoxy tries to claim the idea as its own. This is precisely the path organic food production has followed..."

 Building a Compost Heap, Care2 Make a Difference Web site, adapted from Four-Season Harvest, 2002

"SO OFTEN, the obvious solution is right at our fingertips, but it looks so simple that we fail to notice. Generations of gardeners have consistently come up with the same chain of logic: a fertile soil is the key to growing garden vegetables; compost is the key to a fertile soil. The first step in the four-season harvest is learning to make good compost. It's not difficult. Compost wants to happen....."

 "A Garden For All Seasons," Mother Earth News, February/March 2000

"LIKE MOST fresh homegrown vegetable enthusiasts, I have never wanted the garden to end. That doesn't mean I longed for an endless summer; I love the pleasures of fall, winter and spring. I just wanted year-round, freshly harvested food on the table. Somehow I always knew there had to be a simple way to combine cold-hardy crops with a little climatic protection during the colder times of the year..."

 "Start your Season Now," Growing For Market, January 1999

 "The All-Season Covered Garden," Country Journal, September/October 1992

 "Gardening Under Glass," American HomeStyle and Gardening, August/September 1996

 "Protecting Your Garden Tools," Country Journal, May/June 1991

 A Cook's Garden, Barbara's weekly column in The Washington Post, Home and Garden section, appearing every Thursday.

 The Welcome Return of the Kitchen Garden, The Washington Post, Thursday, May 15, 2003
(From "A COOK'S GARDEN," Barbara's regular column, appearing every Thursday in The Washington Post.)

"THERE was a time when growing food was the most important thing you could do, and nearly every family had a vegetable garden. These were tidy rectangular plots, models of clarity and designed for high yields...."

 "Home Grown and Great". Executive Travel, Spring 2005.

 "The Pleasures of Slow Food," The Art of Eating, Book review, 2003 #64.

 "Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini: The Essential Reference," The Art of Eating, Book review, 2002 #61.

 "Starting From Seed," Horticulture, Jan/Feb, 2002 and American Profile, 2000

 Taste for Growing, American Profile, September 2000

"WORK," says Eliot Coleman, spreading compost over a bed in his Harborside, Maine, greenhouse, "is what you're doing when you'd rather be doing something else."
"If that's true, I've never worked a day in my life."
As a matter of fact, he does seem to be having fun. Coleman is tanned, lean, and fit in a way most 61-year-olds would envy. And he's grinning....

 "Boxed In," American HomeStyle and Gardening, March 1999

 "Salads in the Snow," Horticulture, February 1998

 "How Do Your Gardens Grow," More, Spring 1997

 "The Plot Thickens," Wheaton Quarterly, Spring 1997

 "Shifting: Nature's Way of Change Book Review," Hope Magazine, July/August 1996

 "Winter Harvest," House Beautiful, February 1994

 "Digging Into Spring," Decorating Remodeling, February 1993

 "Maine Havens," House Beautiful,April 1993

 "Business is Blooming," Harrowsmith Country Life, July/August 1992

 "Let a Thousand Prairies Bloom," House Beautiful, November 1992

 "Romancing the Soil," Countryside, Summer 1990

 "Portland in Bloom," Town & Country, 1989

 "How to Think Like a Plant," New Choices, May 1989

 "Ferns and Lillies," Horticulture, July 1987

 "Mixing Herbs With Flowers," Horticulture, March 1985

 "From the Ground Up," Horticulture, November 1985