Eliot Coleman | Denying Our Understanding Of Real Organic Practices Robs The World | 160

160: Organic farmer and Real Organic Project champion Eliot Coleman returns to discuss the role corporations, trade associations, and government policy has had on limiting the amount of real organic food found in the marketplace today. In the second half of the interview, the conversation focuses on growing on-farm fertility and stifling pest pressure by building up organic matter and biodiversity.
Eliot's voice will be featured in our upcoming annual symposium:
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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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  • @steveford9294
    @steveford92944 ай бұрын

    Thanks to Dave and Linley for an excellent interview with Eliot. As usual plenty of knowledge and wisdom to impart to the real organic community. Eliot’s closing words highlight just how important the real organic project is. I see the same very high level of passion in the biodynamic community.which is 100 yrs old this year, let’s make sure the real organic community has the same longevity. I look forward to the online conference in March.

  • @michpom2051
    @michpom20512 ай бұрын

    Enjoyed this so much. Plus, I must say , Gardeing Naturally was the best garden shows ever.

  • @8ema533

    @8ema533

    Ай бұрын

    Thank God I had enough cense to tape them all. I Still go back and watch them as a referance. This great man changed the way I garden many years ago.

  • @Library-Elavatorfan

    @Library-Elavatorfan

    27 күн бұрын

    @@8ema533 I am Eliot and Barbra’s grandchild and I know they would be happy to hear that people still remember their show.

  • @steve37341
    @steve373414 ай бұрын

    I talked with a scientist once at a company that sold mycorrhizae. And he said that mycorrhizae would be preserved as long as you kept something growing in the soil. So, if your farming methods include planting cover crops soon after harvesting other crops, then this should satisfy the requirement of keeping something growing.

  • @whitefarms3274
    @whitefarms32744 ай бұрын

    🥩Great seeing still@it👋🏻 🕊

  • @dianereece4495
    @dianereece44953 ай бұрын

    Dear sir we’re listening and making the changes to heal and restore the soil.

  • @jonbanner5823
    @jonbanner58234 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much, Dave and Eliot, as always a great discussion! Something struck me when Eliot mentions the scene in the movie of Gandhi and it reminded me of the recent story of Amos Miller, an Amish organic farmer out in Lancaster PA. The "system" is doing its best to shut these organic farmers down, Amos and his family are doing everything he can to keep his organic farm and his practices alive. Looking deeper into that story made my heart sink, he has taken many knocks on the head it seems. Its amazing the strength that can come from just a persons belief in what is right.

  • @rferris
    @rferris4 ай бұрын

    This is a wonderful interview.

  • @kellidoty1
    @kellidoty122 күн бұрын

    Thank you so much. The tide is slowly turning, I never knew about so much of this and I'm so grateful.

  • @troygoss6400
    @troygoss64004 ай бұрын

    Great interview. Coleman follows in the steps of his mentors Helen and Scott Nearing. Much gratitude

  • @Valerieanai
    @ValerieanaiАй бұрын

    Excellent

  • @steve37341
    @steve373414 ай бұрын

    Walmart, like many other major financial entities (foundations, corporations, individuals, associations, universities, et al) seek to provide funding as a method of control of the narrative of research and operations, of interests that they have. These are not necessarily positive interests. They can also be negative interests. Negative interests being that research etc that they seek to limit or stop or even get reversed which harms them in some way. So, Walmart's donations in your discussion, are to seek to control negative interests which could significantly affect their retail trade with food. Sort of a "keep your enemies closer" strategy.

  • @ShaunaMarieSings
    @ShaunaMarieSings4 ай бұрын

    Amazing conversation...thank you! 💗💗💗

  • @BaliFoodTreePlanter
    @BaliFoodTreePlanter4 ай бұрын

    #eliotColeman Thanks for your focus on the soils. Your market garden techniques can save lives in 2024 & has already made millions for market gardeners. You may not have heard of my large scale breakthrough, 1981, now called "Livingstone's Living Earth Topsoil Production Centers", 1ton-10ton/ day model. Hands across the waters from Bali to USA. Since 1988, we are ecovillagers doing specialized food tree planting called "Bali Tree Ecosystem". Now for people buying land together we embed deep harmonious values into the decisionmaking practices called "Ancient Future Regenerative Gardens". #asiflifeonEarthMatters

  • @barbaravanerp4598
    @barbaravanerp45984 ай бұрын

    I’d like a camera that shows the two of you in the same room because you are? Feels less Zoom like. Just a request. Edit: love you guys and Eliot. Just bought a book of his and love his way and Barbara of growing. I have an unheated greenhouse in Montana. I also have read Dirt to Soil and it is hopeful for Montana as a step for ranchers who can’t seem to come to the table yet and I’m hopeful. It feels like a stepping stone for people stuck in traditional ways.

  • @peterford436
    @peterford4364 ай бұрын

    There is a clue in the expression "extract value" as oppsed to assigning value...

  • @jenniferspring8741
    @jenniferspring87414 ай бұрын

    What I saw happen after Covid was that wages went up. Prices went up. Profits went way, way up. So, it seems like the corporations gave themselves a very big raise.., and so essentially workers received little net benefit. At the same time, there has been a huge ‘development’ spree which has put even more pressure on agricultural lands and our beautiful mother, Nature, which can coldly be termed a decrease in ecosystem services.

  • @christinechatham8849
    @christinechatham88493 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for every thing you do! Please keep spreading the word! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

  • @Greg-ge7pp
    @Greg-ge7pp4 ай бұрын

    These organizations that claim to represent different areas of agriculture have ever been a value added. In fact they are part of the problem of adding to the cost of food.

  • @realorganicproject6836

    @realorganicproject6836

    4 ай бұрын

    How so, Greg?

  • @reneebulkley1333
    @reneebulkley13333 ай бұрын

    Hello All. This is my first time seeing Colman. (I heard his name through Salatin). Can someone please share the name of his TV Show?

  • @carolineawinja8044
    @carolineawinja80442 ай бұрын

    Can I plant chemical free onions?

  • @gerartsmith
    @gerartsmith2 ай бұрын

    👍🙄🤔👌

  • @atlas4225
    @atlas42252 ай бұрын

    I'm afraid the definition of Organic is not well known and the word itself is not without its own flaws. Anything can be toxic in enough concentration and not everything organic is healthy. Because of this I do not disagree with seeking various tiers of "Organic" to which each may carry their own title. If any of the conspiracy claims are true about why poor nutrition for us leads to profits for them, there is a great deal of earnings to offset.

  • @Samb1600
    @Samb16003 ай бұрын

    I think Eliot is the man, but our 2/3 acre, mainly salad green farm needs amendments to guarantee reliable 3rd and 4th cuts, as well as replenishment of nutrientsas we have 6 or 7 crops in a bed per season. . If we had acres, then cover cropping and standard rotation would suffice.

  • @zeebozabo2008

    @zeebozabo2008

    2 ай бұрын

    Same here. One thing that wasn't addressed in this conversation was the exorbitant cost of land, especially here in the Northeast. There will be many first gen farmers who will only be able to afford small tracts of land, and they will need fertility inputs to thrive.

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