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Posted - Jan 03 2008 : 12:11:17 PM
Ooooh - wish I could go!
Four-Season Farmer Eliot Coleman to Keynote 2008 Horticulture Industries Show
Organic farmer, best-selling author, and inventor Eliot Coleman will speak on both days of the 27th Annual Oklahoma/Arkansas Horticulture Industries Show (HIS), January 4-5 at Tulsa Community College's Northeast Campus.
Coleman will discuss the specialized methods and tools for year-round vegetable growing that he has developed during four decades of organic market gardening.
Coleman's labor saving hand tools have earned him consulting positions with several major gardening supply companies. Together with his books, they have also won him international renown among organic gardeners.
Tools like the broadfork, pinpoint seeder, and grading rake may sound unfamiliar, but vegetable growers worldwide use them as part of Coleman's signature approach to making a profitable livelihood from small-scale gardening.
In The New Organic Grower, which has sold over 45,000 copies since 1988, Coleman wrote that "in terms of both efficiency and profitability, smaller can be better."
His Four Season Harvest explains how to keep fresh vegetables going strong all winter long, with little to no supplemental heating.
That's how Coleman and his wife Barbara Damrosch grow the fresh salads and vegetables that they sell all winter long from their Four Season Farm, in Maine.
The Horticulture Industries Show offers something for existing, new, and potential producers, as well as horticulture-related businesses, in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and surrounding states. The show stretches over two days packed with educational programs and trade show activities.
HIS consistently provides the latest information on Christmas trees, fruit, herbs, public gardens and master gardeners, farmers' markets, vegetables, and sustainable agriculture. Six separate programming tracks run concurrently throughout both days of the show.
Lunches on both days will feature locally produced, seasonal foods from the Upper Crust, a Tulsa catering service.
Registration for is $60, with discounts for additional family members/business partners and/or single-day attendance. You may register at the door. Students and children register for free. Registration includes a CD version of the proceedings of this year's HIS.
Programs and registration forms are available online at www.hortla.okstate.edu/his.htm. For more information, contact Donna Dollins at donna.dollins@okstate.edu or 405.744.6460.
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
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