Awesome! I feel like I've been missing out all these years! His techniques require some equipment and planning, but not pricey heaters and technology just simple, old-world practices used in Europe for centuries (he traveled to France to learn many of the basics, and describes his adventures there). Where? Florida, Californa, Georgia, etc etc? Nope, in zone 5! That's me! No, tomatoes will not grow in February here, but, for example, a person can grow cold-hardy mache (a European green aka corn salad or vit) in the fall, cover it with a cold frame and add a little extra insulation, and harvest it through much of the winter! Even if harvested when frozen, it will be tasty and fresh, not mushy as one might expect. Coleman tells the reader how to harvest from the garden *all year long*. (You might already have guessed that when you consider that this is the first review I've added in the last year or so.) E.
To learn more about the possibility of a four-season farm, please visit Coleman's website You know how every once in a while a book comes along and rocks your world? Well, that's this book for me. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter. This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat.
Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you.
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