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The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses |  | Author: Eliot Coleman
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 1186
Media: Paperback
Pages: 264
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 6.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1603580816
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.0484
EAN: 9781603580816
ASIN: 1603580816
Publication Date: April 15, 2009
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Product Description
Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend thats taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine.Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have access to his 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 The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this new book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.Coleman offers clear, concise details on greenhouse construction and maintenance, planting schedules, crop management, harvesting practices, and even marketing methods in this complete, meticulous, and illustrated guide. Readers have access to all the techniques that have proven to produce higher-quality crops on Colemans own farm.His 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 cant be done.
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The book is an inspiration, the man a genius October 30, 2009
GreenAcresGal (New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For anyone considering growing crops, whether it be a home-scale victory garden, a commercial enterprise, or somewhere in between, Mr. Coleman provides an abundant crop of information ready for harvest by the interested reader. He goes far beyond the general overview of ideas and gets his hands dirty with detailed information on what crops are well suited for winter growing, the differences between cool and cold greenhouses, how to cope with specific garden pests, even how his farm markets their produce to area stores and restaurants. Going further still - and, I should note, this might be where a home gardener loses interest - he discusses tools and techniques that improve efficiency for the small-scale commercial ("slow food") grower and in what other areas improvements are still needed to better enable this type of grower to increase production while maintaining quality and keeping costs down. Many of these ideas are not new, but Coleman both assembles and employs them in such a way to produce results that are nothing short of awe-inspiring while still within reach of anyone willing to put forth the effort.
Winter Harvest Handbook Review October 17, 2009
Ben Cole (Holbrook, AZ United States)
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
Even though much of this book is geared toward the commercial grower rather than the home grower like myself, it contains a lot of useful information for someone, like myself, interested in growing crops year around in an unheated greenhouse.
 Winter Harvest Handbook September 30, 2009
D. Giammarino (brooklyn, new york United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good book for us in the Northeasat. This book has lots of facts and gets to the point, but I also enjoyed a lot of the little quotes and tidbits that the author put in.
great info September 21, 2009
D. Baker (Prescott AZ)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Couldn't find many books on greenhouse gardening. Not a commercial grower but still got lots of useful info.
Invaluable Resource September 17, 2009
Loretta Torres (New Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am attempting to learn the process of growing for market. This is my second full season. I have found I have a lot to learn about season extension and growing for market even though I am a long term gardener. Eliot Coleman's books are full of practical, useful and invaluable information on the entire process. This is the third book I have purchased of his and each book covers different information. There is some overlap but each book is still a mine of useful information for a serious vegetable grower whether for home use or commercial use.
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