Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. Paul Hawken, best-selling author and entrepreneurĬhoosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout North America. He has transformed gardening from a task, to a craft, and finally to what Stewart Brand would call ‘local science’.” “I know of no other person who can produce better results on the land with an economy of effort and means than Eliot. “Every small-scale grower and serious gardener should have a copy.” More information on new tools Eliot has invented that don’t appear in any of his other books Updated information throughout on how Eliot’s practices have changed through his experiments over the yearsĪ new section from Damrosch about incorporating flowers on the small farm
The New Organic Grower is ideal for young farmers just getting started, or gardeners seeking to expand into a more productive enterprise.īeautiful color photographs throughout, taken by master gardener and author Barbara Damrosch (Eliot’s wife and co-farmer) Gardeners working on 2.5 acres or less will find this book especially useful, as it offers proof that small-scale market growers and serious home gardeners can live good lives close to the land and make a profit at the same time. Inspired by the European intensive growers, The New Organic Grower, 30th Anniversary Edition, offers a very approachable and productive form of farming that has proven to work well for the earth and its stewards for centuries. New information has been included in this edition to showcase the new tools and techniques that Eliot has been developing over the last thirty-five years. The wisdom in this seminal book holds true even as the modern agricultural canon has grown-in large part due to Coleman’s influence as a wise elder with decades of experience. Now fully illustrated and updated, this 30th Anniversary Edition is a must-have for any agricultural library.Įliot Coleman’s books and innovative methods have helped innumerable organic farmers build successful farms in deep accordance with nature. Since its original publication in 1989, The New Organic Grower has been one of the most important farming books available, with pioneer Eliot Coleman leading the charge in the organic movement in the United States. The Book that Started the Organic Farming Revolution – 30th Anniversary
0 kommentar(er)
