Farms: Eliot Coleman Keynote at VABF 2011
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Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Organic Practices Eliot Coleman is one of America's most innovative farmers. His determination to grow organic vegetable crops during the winter for profit in Maine has started a revolution among small farmers and market gardeners throughout the temperate climate regions of the world. Thanks to Eliot Coleman's books such as Four Season Harvest and The Winter Harvest Handbook many Virginia farmers now look forward to the fall as a time to get started in crop production. Or-ganic growers are learning that there are often better opportunities for economic success in the cool off season than there are in the warm summer months. Quite a few members of the Virginia Association for Biological Farming remember hearing Eliot speak about organic farming practices used by small farmers in Europe at one of the Sustainable Agriculture Conferences held in Charlottesville back in the 1980s. His first book, The New Organic Grower had a huge influence on thousands of aspiring organic farmers. It gave everyone practical systems to follow in organic vegetable production that really worked. This book brought a great deal of new credibility to organic vegetable production by creating order out of chaos. Sorry for the sound quality issues - his mic transmitter was mistakenly turned off and we had to recover audio from a very noisy source.
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Jean martin fortier is a canook who does the same thing. worth youtubing for similar advice
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This is a must to watch!!
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Hi Eliot, enjoy your show and have learnt great techniques. I live in NJ and have been growing organic vegetables for years. NJ is not too bad!!!!!
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you should call them Valdosta onions
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@11:07 the sound man finally snaps out of his trance and turns on Eliot's lapel mic. Yeah, I'm tough on the sound man because I've been doing sound for over 30 years.
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who clicked on this cuz they thought it was elliot coleman from tesseract/omnom/haunted shores?
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please, could you repeat what kind of "moss" he is suggesting to put on earth in preparation of a new greenhouse?
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Why isn't the video in sync with the speaker?
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@maggies88 tx for letting me know... I was getting close to abandoning. : )
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Sound improves at 11:19. Thank you very much for uploading.
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As I continued to listen the audio got better Yeah ! : )
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Great lecture, Thank you for posting! Just wish the sound quality was better.
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Man this is great stuff... ,he's my new favorite farmer. i'm just now discovering Eliot... if you know how i might come about his and barbara's old TV Episodes i'd love to check them out. thanks for sharing!