Thirty-three years after she began farming on a Brooksville plot formerly owned by back-to-the-landers Helen and Scott Nearing, Barbara Damrosch remains utterly beguiled by what she manages to coax ...
Barbara Damrosch is a lifelong vegetable gardener who’s been one of the most prolific writers on that subject for decades, along with her garden-author husband, Eliot Coleman. The two are best known ...
If there was ever a vegetable gardening power couple, Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch would be it. Thirty years ago, I read Eliot Coleman’s classic, “The New Organic Grower” (Chelsea Green, 1989).
As the busy garden season wraps up, there's one last—but very important—task to tend to: Feeding your soil. Amending beds with organic material will help build nutrient-rich soil over winter, which is ...
I recently received review copies of two new gardening books. In reading them, I discovered that while these books are similar, each representing a call to garden, they also couldn’t be more different ...