The Winter Harvest Handbook

Choosing local­ly grown organ­ic food is a sus­tain­able liv­ing trend that’s 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, mov­ab