Title:
The market gardener : a successful grower's handbook for small-scale organic farming / Jean-Martin Fortier ; foreword by Severine von Tscharner Fleming, The Greenhorns ; illustrations by Marie Bilodeau ; English translation by Scott Irving.
Summary:
Inspired by the French intensive tradition of maraichage and by iconic American vegetable grower Eliot Coleman, author and farmer Jean-Martin shows by example how to start a market garden and make it both very productive and profitable.
Author:
Fortier, Jean-Martin., author.
Contents:
Small Is Profitable -- Succeeding as a Small-Scale Organic Vegetable Grower -- Finding the Right Site -- Designing the Market Garden -- Minimum Tillage and Appropriate Machinery -- Fertilizing Organically -- Starting Seeds Indoors -- Direct Seeding -- Weed Management -- Insect Pests and Diseases -- Season Extension -- Harvest and Storage -- Crop Planning -- Conclusion: Farming for ecology, community, and lifestyle.
Format:
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
1 Small Is Profitable
3 Finding the Right Site
4 Designing the Market Garden
6 Fertilizing Organically
12 Harvest and Storage
Conclusion: Farming for Ecology, Community, and Lifestyle
Index
About the Author
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Foreword
Preface
1 Small Is Profitable
- Can You Really Live ff 1.5 Acres?
- Not Just Making a Good Living, but Making a Good Life
- A Biologically Intensive Approach
- Minimizing Start-Up Costs
- Minimizing Production Costs
- Direct Selling
- Adding Value to the Crops
- Learning the Craft
3 Finding the Right Site
- Climate and Microclimate
- Market Access
- Growing Space Needed
- Soil Quality
- Topography
- Drainage
- Access to Water
- Infrastructure
- Assessing Possible Pollution Problems
4 Designing the Market Garden
- Buildings and Foot Traffic
- Standardizing the Garden Layout
- Locating the Greenhouse and Tunnels
- Protection against Deer
- Windbreaks
- Irrigation
- Permanent Raised Beds
- The Two-Wheel Tractor
- The Broadfork (Grelinette)
- Tarps and Pre-Crop Ground Cover
- To Till or not to Till
6 Fertilizing Organically
- Soil Tests
- Crop Requirements
- Managing Soil Fertility
- Good Compost
- Relying on Natural Fertilizers - Why?
- Establishing Crop Rotation
- Crop Rotation at Les Jardins de la Grelinette
- Green Manure and Cover Crops
- Connecting with Soil Ecology
- Seeding in Cell Flats
- The Soil Mix
- Filling Cell Flats
- The Seedling Room
- The Evolving Plant Nursery
- Heating and Ventilation of the Nursery
- How to Water Seedlings
- Potting up
- Transplanting into the Gardens
- Precision Seeders
- Seedbed Preparation
- Record Keeping
- Cultivating with Hoes
- Weeding with Tarps
- The Stale Seedbed Technique
- Flame Weeding
- Mulching
- Weed Control Technology
- Scouting
- Disease Prevention
- Using Biopesticides
- Floating Row Cover and Low Tunnels
- Caterpillar Tunnels
- Hoophouses
12 Harvest and Storage
- Harvesting Efficiently
- Harvest Help
- The Cold Room
- Setting Farming Objectives
- Determining Production
- Establishing a Crop Calendar
- Making a Garden Plan
- Record Keeping
Conclusion: Farming for Ecology, Community, and Lifestyle
- Appendix 1: Crop Notes
- Appendix 2: Tools and Suppliers
- Appendix 3: Garden Plan
- Appendix 4: Annotated Bibliography
- Appendix 5: Glossary
Index
About the Author
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Subject Term:
- Permaculture.
- Culture maraîchère.
- Agriculture biologique.
- Organic farming.
- Truck farming.
- Community-supported agriculture.
- small scale farming.
- Alternative agriculture.
- vegetable crops.
- agronomic characters.
- cropping system.
- pest insects.
- Plant diseases.
9780865717657
9781550925555
Physical Description:
xvi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language Note:
Translated from the French.
Publication Date:
2014
General Note:
Originally published in French as Le jardinier-maraicher: manuel d'agriculture biologique sur petite surface.
Added Author:
Bilodeau, Marie,
Irving, Scott,
Available:5
No. of Copies
Library
Material Type
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Shelf Number
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Status
1 Burnside Library Book Adult Non Fiction
635.0484 FOR C0510900752
Due 1/12/18
