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    Four Season Harvest: How to Harvest Fresh Organic Vegetables from Your Home Gardens All Year Long: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman, Kathy Bray (Illustrator), Kathy Bray (Illustrator), Barbara Damrosch (Foreword by), Barbara Damrosch (Foreword by)

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    (Paperback - REVISED)

    • Pub. Date: October 1999
    • 236pp
    • Sales Rank: 8,763

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      • Pub. Date: October 1999
      • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
      • Format: Paperback, 236pp
      • Sales Rank: 8,763

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      Can you imagine bringing a little taste of southern France to northern New England winters?Originally published in 1992, Four-Season Harvest introduced readers to Eliot Coleman's simple, efficient system for growing and harvesting vegetables throughout the year, no matter what the climate. Now, in this revised and expanded edition, Coleman takes his gardening classic several steps further, describing the continuing evolution and perfection of the winter gardening concept.

      Especially noteworthy is the knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that Coleman received on a winter pilgrimage to southern France in 1996. What he had realized is that, although the climate may be different there, southern France (and parts of Italy) lies along the 44th parallel, the same latitude as Coleman's farm in Maine. That means that daylength is the same in both regions, and the amount of sunlight is the key that regulates plant growth. The simple crop-protection and storage schemes that Coleman has developed enable any home gardener in a place such as New England to enjoy fresh food year-round, à la the traditional cuisine of rural southern France.

      Coleman's usual emphasis on nutrition and great taste, natural processes, and ingenious inexpensive low-tech solutions is delightfully enhanced in the new Four-Season Harvest by stories and culinary insight from his tour of France, descriptions of unfamiliar varieties suited to winter gardening in the U.S., and expanded discussions of how to grow and use his vegetable "Cast of Characters."

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
      Eliot Coleman is a consultant and expert on chemical-free agriculture. He teaches organic farming at the College of the Atlantic in Maine and has written numerous articles on organic techniques as well as the best-seller book, The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (Chelsea Green, 1989; revised edition 1995). He grows his own vegetables year-round on his farm in Harborside, Maine.

      Peter V. Fossel

      Four-Season Harvest is a magnificent work. It's enticing, inspiring, sensible, and it opens a whole new world for rthe home grower. —Country Journal

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      Great bookby Anonymous

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      August 22, 2009: Great book. Practical and doable with minimum DIY skills

      Winter Wonders Revealedby Anonymous

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      March 18, 2009: This book is an inspiration. It has inspired me to give winter gardening a try.

      If you love to garden and hate to see it end in the fall, this book is one for your collection. The "research" done is mostly the author's personal travels and trials doing something he loves, sifting through the details and letting the reader know what works and what doesn't and why. He gives good tips that a basic gardener may not be aware of.

      One of the best parts about this book is that everything he uses, tools, growing aids, etc, are all hand-made and require no electricity, heat, or other external source of power to help the garden grow. He uses the simple logic of nature to do the work for him and helps it along as any resourceful human would.

      If you read this in the winter you'll be bumming that you hadn't read it sooner so you could go out and start your own winter garden. I'll be prepared for my first trial in winter gardening this fall.


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