THE NEW ORGANIC GROWER: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener

"Small farms are where agricultural advances are nurtured. New ideas are conceived every day by the folks who are solving nature's puzzles."

With more than 45,000 sold since 1988, The New Organic Grower has become a modern classic. In this newly revised and expanded edition, master grower Eliot Coleman continues to present the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables. Coleman updates practical information on marketing the harvest, on small-scale equipment, and on farming and gardening for the long-term health of the soil. The new book is thoroughly updated, and includes all-new chapters such as:

 Farm-Generated Fertility-how to meet your soil-fertility needs from the resources of your own land, even if manure is not available.

 The Moveable Feast-how to construct home-garden and commercial-scale greenhouses that can be easily moved to benefit plants and avoid insect and disease build-up.

 The Winter Garden-how to plant, harvest, and sell hardy salad crops all winter long from unheated or minimally heated greenhouses.

 Pests?-how to find "plant-positive" rather than "pest-negative" solutions by growing healthy, naturally resistant plants.

 The Information Resource-how and where to learn what you need to know to grow delicious organic vegetables, no matter where you live.

Written for the serious gardener or small market farmer, The New Organic Grower proves that, in terms of both efficiency and profitability, smaller can be better.
Softcover, 340 pages.

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FOUR SEASON HARVEST: Organic Vegetables From Your Home Garden All Year Long

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. 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.

Eliot Coleman presents simple, inexpensive designs for cold frames, unheated mobile greenhouses, and root cellars in this home garden best seller. Chapters include: The Living Soil; Compost; Planning and Preparing; Planting and Cultivating; Cold Frames; Tunnels; Root Cellar and Indoor Harvesting; Plants and Pests; Growing tips for 50 Vegetable Crops; and Resources. Softcover, 224 pages.

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WINTER HARVEST MANUAL

The "winter-harvest," as described in this publication, can produce high quality, organically grown crops for fresh sale during the traditional non-farming months in all parts of the country by using locally available resources and inexpensive climate modification. It achieves that aim by combining the biological potential of cold-hardy vegetables with the minimal protection of simple greenhouse technologies. The cold-hardy crops are appropriate to the season ad the simple greenhouse techniques are appropriate to the needs of those crops. We think this minimalist approach has potential for growers in any part of the country where winter presently constrains production.
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