By Eliot Coleman
Choosing in the community grown natural foodstuff is a sustainable residing pattern that’s taken carry all through North the US. Celebrated farming specialist Eliot Coleman helped begin this stream with The New natural Grower released twenty years in the past. He maintains to steer the way in which, pushing the bounds of the harvest season whereas operating his world-renowned natural farm in Harborside, Maine.
Now, together with his long-awaited new publication, The iciness Harvest Handbook, a person may have entry to his hard-won adventure. Gardeners and farmers can use the cutting edge, hugely winning tools Coleman describes during this finished guide to elevate vegetation through the coldest of winters.
Building at the thoughts that millions of farmers and gardeners followed from The New natural Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this new publication makes a speciality of turning out to be produce of extraordinary freshness and caliber in personalized unheated or, on occasion, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.
Coleman deals transparent, concise information on greenhouse development and upkeep, planting schedules, crop administration, harvesting practices, or even advertising tools during this whole, meticulous, and illustrated consultant. Readers have entry to the entire concepts that experience confirmed to provide higher-quality vegetation on Coleman’s personal farm.
His painstaking examine and experimentation with greater than 30 assorted vegetation should be worthy to small farmers, homesteaders, and skilled domestic gardeners who search to extend their construction seasons.
A passionate suggest for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman presents a pragmatic version for offering clean, in the neighborhood grown produce through the wintry weather season, even in climates the place traditional knowledge says it “just can’t be done.”
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Extra info for The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses
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Getting Started 4. The Yearly Schedule 5. Sunlight 6. The “Cold” Greenhouse 7. The “Cool” Greenhouse 8. Winter Crops 9. Summer Crops 10. Greenhouse Design 11. Year-Round Intensive Cropping 12. Soil Preparation 13. Sowing 14. Weed Control 15. Harvesting in Winter 16. Marketing and Economics 17. Pests 18. Insects and Diseases 19. Tools for the Small Farm 20. Deep-Organic Farming and the Small Farm Appendices Annotated Bibliography 1. Cool greenhouse 2. Seed-starting greenhouse 3. Cold frames 4. Quick hoops 5.
Our goal was to find the lowest tech and most economical way to extend fresh-vegetable harvest through the winter months. Low-tech winter production began with old-time glass-covered cold frames and moved on to placing the frames inside simple greenhouses. That beginning evolved into larger, but almost as simple, 30-by-96-foot mobile greenhouses with an inner layer of lightweight row-cover material replacing the cold frames. The economics focused on seeing how much we could produce without incurring the cost of supplemental heat.
DAN BARBER, Chef, Blue Hill and Blue Hill Stone Barns “If we are going to create a good, clean, fair food system, we’ve got to learn how to grow affordable, local food year-round and make a living at it. Eliot Coleman knows more about this than anyone I’ve met. Here he gives the detailed information needed to make it work. ” —JOSHUA VIERTEL, President, Slow Food USA “‘Attention to detail is the major secret to success in any endeavor,’ writes Eliot Coleman in this absorbing and happily detailed report on his ongoing efforts to grow flawless vegetables without hothouses on the frozen ‘back side’ of the year.