Eliot Coleman at Churchtown | We Must Do It Again | 198

198: Real Organic Project champion Eliot Coleman returns to the stage at Churchtown Dairy to speak about the need to focus our conversations and energy around organic practices, instead of popularizing the reliance on outside inputs. He contends that even commercial-scale growers have all they need on-farm to feed their soil and crops, utilizing green manures, compost, and rotation strategies.
Eliot Coleman is an author, market gardener, and educator. His work on the USDA study in the late 1970's, "Report and Recommendations on Organic Farming" helped lead to the formation of the National Organic Program, setting the very standards that are being ignored by corporate interests today. He lives and farms in Harborside, Maine with his wife, gardening and cookbook author Barbara Damrosch, while he transitions Four Season Farm to his daughter Clara Coleman.
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[@karenstark5299]

I will forever call myself customer, eater and will encourage others to do so as well.
Thank you Abby for sharing your wise words. Thank you Eliot for your questions. Learned a lot.

[@joycee5493]

Yes, thank you Elliot and Abby!

[@corinne7126]

Thank you for the video

[@Dolesan]

Thank you for this.
I’m hoping to start researching the topic of increasing soil OM by addition of “home made” amino acids and local microbes. The idea being: adjust the C:N ratio with a natural N source to allow microbial biomass to increase using more recalcitrant C sources (leaves, maybe even wood)…
Cheers

[@TheWoodlandOrchard]

Worth watching for the opening comments alone.

[@growingaHome]

Thank you!!!

[@elizabethhenderson7265]

I totally agree with Abby about not demeaning conscious eaters by calling them "consumers!"
Back in the 1990's, however, it was organic farmers who decided to stop calling those who used chemicals "chemical" farmers and to use "conventional" instead so that we could keep the door open for dialogue.

[@vasudhevankrishnan1719]

🙏🌱⚘️❤️

[@jamesanderson677]

"..GOD guides those who believe to the truth
that is disputed by all others,
in accordance with His will.."
Glorious Quran 2:213

[@eastportorganic]

🧑‍🌾👋

[@PR.Hobbit]

CONsumer
CONventional
Both con words ... conception is the most evil (opposite to live) which is an idea = immaculate conception ... a 'belief'. Belief is the enemy of knowing. Knowing is information. 'And you will KNOW the TRUTH and the TRUTH will MAKE you FREE'

[@remymccoy6078]

I just got off the plane you old fart, 😂😂😂 WOOOOOOOOOhoo