Camden Garden Club

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 6:00am

Barbara and Elliot are holding a painting of the garden in high season.

Barbara Damrosch and Elliot Coleman Welcoming Camden Garden Club-Nancy Harmon Jenkins Approves,

The house was built in 2006, in order to house 11,000 books on agriculture. The painting captures the front garden in full bloom.

Four Seasons Farm in Full Bloom,

Barbara Damrosch and Elliot Coleman Sharing Farm Stories with Our Team,

Barbara hand set every stone in the ring garden complete with the lanvender, wild-thyme and sage. The scent, even in the eary spring fills the head.

The Herb Garden and Floral Green House,

"ELIOT COLEMAN is the author of The New Organic Grower, Four Season Harvest, and The Winter Harvest Handbook. He has written extensively on the subject of organic agriculture since 1975, including chapters in scientific books and the foreword to Keeping Food Fresh: Old World Techniques and Recipes by the gardeners and farmers of Terre Vivant. Eliot has more than 50 years’ experience in all aspects of organic farming, including field vegetables, greenhouse vegetables, rotational grazing of cattle and sh

Four Season Farm-,

Preparing for the Summer Season,

Simple Techniques with Minimum Machinery-Just Time. Energy and Care,

Table after table of budding vegetable plants-

Rows of Vegetable Starters,

Meeting Caleb Hawkins Who Is Living His Dream-Leasing Four Season Farm. "To be growing on the land Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch (and so many others) have skillfully cultivated for over 50 years is such an honor! We are humbled and incredibly grateful for this opportunity! We will continue growing flowers and will now also grow vegetables!"

Camden Garden Club members learn first hand from Caleb Hawkins,

You can hear more on winter farming claracoleman.com/winter-growers-podcast

Green Houses Dot the Fields at Four Season Farm,

Green Houses Provide a Layer of Warmth for Winter Vegetables

Rows of Arugula Surrounded by Warmth from the Winter Chill

You read it correctly. Growing your own food is a seduction. Barbara Damrosch and Nancy Jenkins, the guest speakers for the Camden Garden Club inagural Garden Expo are the seducers. “Edible Gardens & Bountiful Tables,” will be held Thursday, July 17, 2025. Along with featured gust speakers Barbara Damrosch and Nancy Harmon Jenkins, there will a PechaKucha-style presentation, horticultural demonstrations, tablescape displays, and a micro-farm tour. Most activities will take place at the Camden-Rockport Middle School at 34 Knowlton Street in Camden.

Barbara Damrosch has worked professionally in the field of horticulture since 1977. She writes, consults, and lectures on gardening and is co-owner of Four Season Farm, an experimental market garden in Harborside, Maine, with her husband Eliot Coleman. From 2003 to 2017, Barbara wrote the weekly column, “A Cook’s Garden,” for The Washington Post. She is the author of The Garden Primer, Theme Gardens, and The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook, which won the American Horticultural Society’s Book Award in 2014. Her writing has been published extensively in national magazines. She is a story teller and will have you planting your potager after your hear about her new book, A Life in the Garden: Tales and Tips for Growing Food in Every Season.

Nancy Harmon Jenkins is an authority on Mediterranean cuisines, the Mediterranean diet and its consequences for good health, extra-virgin olive oil, and ancient Egyptian maritime technology. She is the author of many books, the latest of which include Virgin Territory: Exploring the World of Olive Oil and, in collaboration with her daughter, Chef Sara Jenkins, The Four Seasons of Pasta. Nancy has contributed countless articles to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, International Herald-Tribune, Saveur, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Gastronomica, Smithsonian, Downeast, and Wooden Boat, among others. She appears frequently on NPR and BBC food programming. Nancy is a sensational cook. She brings all her wisdom to the table and serves it.

Lunching with these two legends at Four Season Farm was a seduction. The farm itself contains green houses, out buildings, stone path ways and vine covered terraces. The intention of this year's Garden Expo is to take this inspiration and apply it to our mid-coast gardening and farming.

Tickets go on sale May 1 camdengardenclub.org There will be seating for 200.