Four Season Farm

Four Season Farm is an experimental market garden in Harborside, Maine, owned and operated by writers Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman. The farm produces vegetables year-round and has become a nationally recognized model of small-scale sustainable agriculture.

Barbara Damrosch

Barbara has worked professionally in the field of horticulture since 1977. She writes a weekly column for The Washington Post called A Cook's Garden and is the author of The Garden Primer and Theme Gardens.

Eliot Coleman

Eliot has more than 40 years of experience in all aspects of organic farming, including field vegetables, greenhouse vegetables, rotational grazing of cattle and sheep, and range poultry. He is the author of The New Organic Grower, Four Season Harvest and the Winter Harvest Handbook.

Farm Stand

• In order to give us more time for writing and research on winter production, the summer farm stand is no longer open.

Winter Farmers' Market

• Produce is available October to May at the Blue Hill Winter Market at Mainescape:
  48 South St, Blue Hill, ME 04614
  (207) 374-2833

Quick Links

• General Questions about us and the farm
• Articles by and about Barbara & Eliot
• Resources for greenhouses, seeds, tools and more
• Videos of Barbara & Eliot
• Like our Facebook page

Frequently Requested Information

• Duckingham Palace

Duckingham Palace

For more information about Duckingham Palace, see Eliot's book, Four Season Harvest, page 67

• Plans for our Chickshaw (PDF)
• Quick Hoops and Quick Hoop Benders

Quick Hoops and Quick Hoop Benders

You will find both instructional videos and written instructions on the Johnny's Selected Seeds website. Under 'Tools and Supplies' click on 'Quick Hoops Low Tunnels' for the 4-foot and 6-foot hoops and 'Quick Hoops High Tunnels' for structures like our modular greenhouse.

NEW!
The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook: From the Garden to the Table in 120 Recipes

New in February 2013, two books in one!

1. A step-by-step garden guide that works no matter how small your plot. We cover the basics, from soil and harvest, and teach you our four decades worth of time-saving tricks to make gardening easier and more successful.


2. A four-season cookbook with 120 recipes from Barbara, from Stuffed Squash Blossom Fritters to Red Thai Curry with Fall Vegetables to Hazelnut Torte with Summer Berries. We show you how to turn your garden’s bounty into great meals, using simple recipes that can be adapted to whatever’s in season.

More Information

• Order The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook
• Event Calendar
• Additional Resources
• Building the Modular Greenhouse (PDF)

Events

• See our events calendar for speaking engagements and other dates.

Articles

• A Cook's Garden – Barbara's regular column in The Washington Post
• The Elders of Organic Farming – by Carol Pogash, January 24, 2014, New York Times
• The Constant Gardeners (pdf) – by Heidi Julavits, New York Times Style Magazine
• The Winter Garden: Warming Recipes from Four Season Farm (pdf)
  – by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Food & Wine
• More articles – about us and by us

Recent Books

• The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook, Workman Publishing, 2013
• The Winter Harvest Handbook, Chelsea Green, 2009
• The Garden Primer, Workman Publishing, 2008, Revised Edition