An Educational Visit to Four Season Farm

Reader Contribution by Jennifer Kongs
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The Small Home, Big Decisions series follows Jennifer and her husband, Tyler, as they build a self-reliant homestead on a piece of country property in northeastern Kansas. The series will delve into questions that arise during their building process and the decisions they make along the way. The posts are a work in progress, written as their home-building adventure unfolds.

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit Four Season Farm, the home and farm of esteemed market gardeners and writers Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch. I wanted to learn about how their successful farm and homestead had been established, and what steps they took to get where they are today. Their farm is located in Harborside, Maine, which has long winters and, this year, exceptionally heavy snowfall. Case in point: I arrived in late April, and snow was still on the ground (see below) and the first tulips were just bulging, readying for bloom. Even by coastal Maine standards this was unseasonably late.

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