| Customer Reviews
A complete organic guide. This is a very thorough and complete book that guides the reader through the set-up and maintenance of an organic garden. Great info on building the soil via natural and sustainable methods. Green manuring/cover croping is covered in great detail. This is also a complete plan for someone interested in running a market garden. Eliot Coleman shows that organic gardening is very simple, and that it can produce better quality items with less inputs. Overall, a great book that shows how we can protect and build our soils the natural way while harvesting a healthier and more quality crop.
Difficult to beat this book Practical idealists, the Shakers demonstrated that it is possible for man to create the environment and way of life he wants, not by complaining about the system but by building their own domain arranged to their liking. Eliot Coleman, farm manager of the Mountain School Program of Milton Academy in Vershire, Vermont, has demonstrated that it is possible to undertake small-scale, commercial farming and gardening without the use of harmful pesticides by using cost-effective, environmentally sustainable methods to produce spectacular results with economy of effort and means. By offering a wealth of ideas; by identifying the most efficient and practical machinery and tools; by offering simple and efficient production techniques; and advising on the most remunerative marketing methods, this book is for the gardener and small farmer who has an unfulfilled dream to established an organic enterprise with minimal expense. When low cost production methods are allied with the right machinery and marketing practices, the viability of the 1-5 acre farm producing high quality food is not only possible but also enjoyable and profitable.
Eliot Coleman : The wise organic guy. Well I loved this book.Eliot Coleman shows us just how much experience he accumulated throughout the years,by probably testing every technique,and every variety of vegetable possibly out there.. |
