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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org, marketfarming@lists.ibiblio.org, lflondon@mindspring.com
  • Subject: [permaculture] <fwd> Famous expert on organic farming to speak
  • Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:33:02 -0400

PIONEERING ORGANIC FARMER ELIOT COLEMAN TO SPEAK IN FAIRFIELD, IOWA

Author of Two Books to Give Workshops on Organic Farming and
Year-Round Farming


Eliot Coleman, known nationally for his organic farming
techniques and famous for his year-round growing in frigid
Maine, will be in Fairfield on May 10-11, 2002 to give lectures
and workshops on organic and winter gardening.

Coleman is the author of "The New Organic Grower" and "Four-
Season Harvest," the primary working texts for organic farming
in North America and in the English-speaking world.

In September, he is out seeding his lettuces, carrots,
radishes, and salad greens, which grow bountifully throughout
the winter in his unheated greenhouses in Maine. While the
typical farmer sows and harvest hundreds of acres of grains and
legumes from May to November, he cultivates 6 acres of land
year-round in one of the country's coldest climates.

He will conduct workshops on simple ways to grow vegetables
year-round using inexpensive techniques without the use of
fossil fuels. This program eliminates the confines of the
growing season and provides technologies for protecting the
environment and conserving energy. It has the potential to
create a new niche in Iowa's agricultural economy by enabling
more growers to provide locally grown produce all year long.
This will support Secretary of Agriculture Patti Judge's view
that Iowa growers are just beginning to grow food for Iowans
(as opposed to growing agricultural commodities for the world).

-MORE-

Schedule


Friday, May 10

10 am Natural Pest Prevention
1 pm Winter Gardening in Iowa
7:45 pm --Keynote--
Action to Create a Sustainable World Begins in
Our Backyard

Saturday, May 11

9:10 am Mini keynote talk
10:20 am Building Soil Fertility with On Site Inputs
2 pm Winter Gardening in Iowa

The fee for his workshop will range from $10-30.

Eliot Coleman will be just one of dozens of speakers and events
comprising the Eco-Fair 2002 on the campus of Maharishi
University of Management, May 9-12.

For more information on the Eco-Fair, see:
http://www.ecofair2002.org/.
Or call Joan Masover at Iowa Progressive Asset Management at
641-469-4000 or 800-509-9096 until May 3. After May 3, contact
Dr. M. Savard at msavard@eudoramail.com or 641-472-9180.

For more information on Eliot Coleman, see:

http://family_friendly.tripod.com/gardening/organic/Eliot-Coleman.htm
http://www.chelseagreen.com/Coleman/
http://www.chelseagreen.com/Coleman/NYTNov01.htm


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L.F.London ICQ#27930345 lflondon@mindspring.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech london@ibiblio.org



  • [permaculture] <fwd> Famous expert on organic farming to speak, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 04/25/2002

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