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Clara Coleman, is a second-generation American organic farmer, consultant and speaker on four-season farming techniques and daughter of renowned farming pioneer Eliot Coleman. For three years, she created and operated a successful intensive 2-acre vegetable farm known as Divide Creek Farm located in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 

 

Clara's experiences also include farm consultanting for Wegmans Food Markets on their organic farm in upstate New York. Currently she resides in Portland, Maine with her two sons and is focused on four-season farm consulting and speaking engagements nationwide as a means to inspire and encourage the next generation of farmers.

 

Subscribe to Clara's Corner and recieve her expert advice on four-season farming in a moveable high tunnel greenhouse. 

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Exploring the benefits of movable high tunnels: Movable high tunnels have become the new buzz word in four-season small-scale agriculture these days but are they really worth all the hype? The simplest answer depends on your needs as a farmer or a home gardener. In my personal experience, movable tunnels have the benefits of improved four-season growing as well as the potential to enhance customer relationship marketing. Let’s first get acquainted with movable high tunnel basics and explore the main advantages and possible disadvantages of a movable tunnel.

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On Saturday, February 16th our four season farming specialist, Clara Coleman, was the keynote speaker at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont's (NOFA-VT)  2013 Winter Conference. Clara delievered an inspiring speech titled “Back to My Roots, Forward to the Next Generation” to a crowd of over 900 people and hosted a workshop with her father, Eliot Coleman.

We had the opportunity to chat with Clara after the event to learn more about how organizations, like NOFA-VT, can help greenhouse farmers. 

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We had the pleasure of chatting with our new four-season farming specialist, Clara Coleman, daughter of renown farmer and author Eliot Coleman. We asked her about her farming experiences out west, her move back east and what it was like growing up as the daughter of Eliot Coleman. Read more! 

 

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