Barbara Damrosch

Barbara Damrosch (born 1942) is a Horticulture horticulturalist (sometimes called the Julia Child of gardening), writer, and co-owner in Maine of the Four Season Farm with her husband Eliot Coleman, whom she married in 1991. Both of them had two previous marriages and divorces. They co-authored the book The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook: From the Garden to the Table in 120 Recipes (2013) and co-hosted for several years the television series Gardening Naturally. She wrote the acclaimed books Theme Gardens (1982), The Garden Primer (1988), and A Life in the Garden: Tales and Tips for Growing Food in Every Season (2024). For over 14 years from 2003 to 2017 she wrote a weekly column “A Cook’s Garden” for The Washington Post. Quotes Oddly enough, modern gardens have become more and more scentless. Bigger, hardier, more bepetaled flowers are the goal of the hybridizers, and while the new plants are often superior in many ways to old favorites, they are rarely more fragrant. Scent is a ghost you find in old gardens, or in plantings of old-fashioned varieties. It is also found aplenty in gardens for the blind, who are particularly attuned to scent, and in herb beds where the subtle scents of foliage are treasured. Theme Gardens revised, 2nd Workman Publishing 2001 9780761121374 https://books.google.com/books?id=-uOOEps6KAoC&pg=PA18 18 (250 pages; illustrated by Karl W. Stuecklen, 1st edition 1982) You just can't put roses in the ground and hope they'll thrive ... If you want a lot of show and color but no work, then plant easy things like Daylily day lilies that don't take much work. as quoted by Joan Lee Faust in: February 3, 1983 https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/03/garden/gardening-the-enduring-allure-of-perennials.html Gardening: The Enduring Allure of Perennials The New York Times 12, Section C Lamb's quarters. Chenopodium album. How this weed got to be associated with so many animals I'll never know, but it also goes by the names pigweed, fat hen, and white goosefoot. An annual that likes any garden soil, it has ragged-edged leaves and grows as tall as 6 feet. On the plus side, it's easy to pull out and is delicious cooked like creamed spinach. But it grows very fast, and unless you consume an awful lot of creamed greens there is always too much of it. The Garden Primer Workman Publishing 2nd 2008 9780761148562 https://books.google.com/books?id=-mJWkH1prqYC&pg=PA49 49 (820 pages; 1st edition 1988) Why tussle with a BowFlex, Inc.#History Nautilus machine when you can walk outside, spend time in fresh air and come in with an armful of fresh food? as quoted by Steele Hays in: Damrosch discusses gardens for all seasons The Weekly Packet, a publication of Prescott Bay Press January 23, 2025 https://penobscotbaypress.com/articles/latestnews-theweeklypacket/damrosch-discusses-gardens-for-all-seasons/ One thing we can control, if we want to embark on it, is getting our own food supply. I think that, for a lot of people, it could be an economic necessity or improvement. In my case, it's much more the satisfaction of knowing how fresh it is, what's gone into growing it, how it tastes, the fact that it's right out there — I can go grab it — you know, that kind of thing. Common Ground Radio 7/10/25: Barbara Damrosch’s Life in the Garden WERU 89.9FM Community Radio,Serving Midcoast, Downeast & Central Maine https://archives.weru.org/common-ground-radio/2025/07/common-ground-radio-7-10-25-barbara-damroschs-life-in-the-garden/ (quote at 3:04 of 29:00 in audio) When we think of eating homegrown food during the cold season, we often think of staples such as potatoes squirreled away in the root cellar, or of vegetables like winter squash stashed in a cool, dry place. But many gardeners are discovering the joys of harvesting fresh produce all winter long, which allows for feasts of cold-hardy crops that are just-picked and just right for the time of year. ... Winter fare is about leaves, stems, and roots, which mature more and more slowly as the weather cools and the days shorten. Better still, winter vegetables sweeten with the cold. If you’ve ever tasted a winter-pulled carrot or winter-cut spinach, you’re familiar with the treasures winter gardening can bring. ...... Winter has always been a good season for a wide array of crops in the southern states, and in the northern tier of the United States, you can grow the same crops if you use a winter-protection device to broaden your garden’s productive season. This might be a cold frame, a simple greenhouse, the quick-hoop system, or just a layer or two of floating row cover, often called Reemay. All of these season-extension devices capture some of the earth’s natural warmth, especially at night, and block the chilling, drying effect of wind. Mother Earth News Vegetables that Grow in Winter November 12, 2025 https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/gardening-techniques/winter-gardening-tips-best-crops-zm0z13onzsto/ External links Barbara Damrosch https://www.eliotbarbara.com/ Eliot Coleman & Barbara Damrosch eliotbarbara.com Category:1942 births Category:Living people Category:Columnists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:People from New York (state) Category:Television personalities Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:Women media personalities