by Sarah | Dec 2, 2022 | Expert essay
Organic Grower Feature: It’s not just about the Bees By Andy Dibben, Organic Vegetable Farmer, Abbey Home Farm, UK Insects managed correctly in agriculture transform quickly from being a pest to being a powerful tool. For far too long the discussion in...
by Sarah | Apr 22, 2022 | Expert essay
Questions for Organic Farmers to Discuss by Eliot Coleman, Four Season Farm, Harborside, Maine DEFINITION – According to all of us, what is “organic”? What (values, practices, beliefs, etc.) has “organic” farming traditionally meant to its practitioners...
by Sarah | Mar 24, 2022 | Expert essay
Without Organic, Just Regenerative Isn’t Enough by Eliot Coleman, Four Season Farm, Harborside, Maine Over the years we at Four Season Farm have managed to turn the two inches of poor sandy topsoil with which we began here in 1968 into ten or more inches...
by Sarah | Feb 23, 2022 | Expert essay
The New Truth by Eliot Coleman, Four Season Farm, Harborside, Maine On Saturdays during the summer, I take the opportunity to chat with our farm stand (farm shop) customers while they are waiting in line. I mention to them, what is to me, a most significant...
by Sarah | Jan 23, 2022 | Expert essay
Soil-grown vs soil-less food production by Eliot Coleman The interest in using soil-less hydroponic systems to grow food is an example of what Teddy Goldsmith decried in his book The Way (1992) as “the methodical substitution of the technosphere or surrogate...
by Sarah | Dec 19, 2021 | Expert essay
An old-time opinion from an old organic farmer by Eliot Coleman I have always thought that the world missed the important message of Plowman’s Folly. The title of the 1943 surprise best seller caused readers to focus on author Edward Faulkner’s condemnation of...
