by Sarah | May 16, 2022 | Grower Feature
Feature Farm of the Month: Glasraí Organic Farm By Aoife Reilly, Grower at Glasraí Organic Farm We are a 7 acre farm in Co. Mayo. We have a team of employees (2 full-time, 4 part-time) alongside ourselves. Our main market route is farmers markets however we also do...
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 | 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...
by Sarah | Feb 1, 2021 | Education
Horticultural Hindsight (or how to reinvent yourself after a long career) by Jason Horner (originally written for the Organic Grower (magazine of the Organic Growers Alliance, UK) in Winter 2020) Everyone has advice for growers who are just starting out, the...
