Eliot Coleman Keynote at VABF 2011

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.

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[lupabuatchannel]

I Really Like The Video From Your Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Organic Practices Eliot Coleman is one of America's most innovative farmers

[willamricard]

Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing 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.

[greedsucks11]

@maggies88 tx for letting me know... I was getting close to abandoning. : )

[maggies88]

Sound improves at 11:19. Thank you very much for uploading.

[TheRealCybelline]

Thank you SO MUCH for posting this video to YouTube. It is information-packed! I'm also just discovering Eliot Coleman, but even if I had known about his methods for years, this video includes enough new inventions (like the moving chicken coop) to make it a must-see. For anyone first clicking on the video, the intial 10 minutes has bad audio and some delays, but once they turn on his mike the audio is clear. Video really gets going once he has his own slides on screen. Thank you again!!!

[Kymimom]

As I continued to listen the audio got better Yeah ! : )

[Kymimom]

Great lecture, Thank you for posting! Just wish the sound quality was better.

[tribalwind]

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!