ELIOT COLEMAN and his wife, Barbara Damrosch, raise vegetables and salad greens on a year-round organic farm in Harborside, Maine, on land that was part of the homestead of Helen and Scott Nearing.

He is one of America’s leading practitioners of organic gardening and farming. He has pioneered a “plant-positive” approach to horticulture that surpasses chemical-dependent agriculture in every way producing vegetables that are exceptionally nutritious, delicious, and healthy.