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The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming Paperback - 2014
by Jean-Martin Fortier
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Grow better not bigger with proven
low-tech, human-scale, biointensive farming methods
... Les Jardins de la Grelinette is an owner-operated micro-farm which feeds more than 200 families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands. The secret of their success is low-tech, high-yield production methods which help them grow better rather than bigger, making their business more lucrative and viable in the process. The Market Gardener is a compendium of La Grelinette's proven horticultural techniques, packed with practical information on:
- Setting-up a micro-farm by designing biologically intensive cropping systems, all with negligible capital outlay;
- Farming without a tractor and minimizing fossil fuel inputs through the use of the best hand tools, appropriate machinery and minimum tillage practices;
- Growing mixed vegetables systematically with attention to weed and pest management, crop yields, harvest periods and pricing approaches. As local organic agriculture continues to flourish, young professional growers like Jean-Martin Fortier and his wife Maude-Helene Desroches are leading the way with their innovative ideas about farming. Based on low-tech, high-yield methods of production The Market Gardener is a complete, modern, micro-scale farming handbook which shows that making a living wage growing food without large capital outlay or access to an acreage may be closer than you think.
... ... picks up right where Eliot Coleman has left us, applying many of his core principles, but doing it in such a brilliant way as to provide beginning farmers a solid framework of the information they need to start up and become successful small-scale organic growers themselves- Adam Lemieux, Product Manager of Tools & Supplies, Johnny's Selected Seeds In France, The Market Gardener has quickly become a book of reference for small-scale farming. Both visionary and practical, it is a work of rare intelligence. --- Charles Herve-Gruyer, permaculture teacher and grower at la Fermedu BecHellouin, France ... Jean-Martin Fortier is a passionate advocate of strong local food systems, and founder of Les Jardins de la Grelinette; an internationally recognized model for successful biointensive micro-farming.
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- Title The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming
- Author Jean-Martin Fortier
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada
- Date 2014-03-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780865717657 / 0865717656
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 8.56 x 0.75 in (21.59 x 21.74 x 1.91 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Organic farming, Permaculture
- Dewey Decimal Code 635.048
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