30 years after the classic ‘New Organic Grower’ comes ‘Life in the Garden’

If there was ever a vegetable gardening power couple, Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch would be it. 

Thirty years ago, I read Eliot Coleman’s classic, “The New Organic Grower” (Chelsea Green, 1989). It is widely considered to be the best book ever written on growing vegetables. And now his wife Barbara Damrosch comes along and writes “A Life in the Garden” (Timber Press, 2024), an intriguing, personal volume about her upbringing and life as a food gardener. 

It’s important to keep in mind that this couple gardens in Maine...