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It is ‘the’ how-to manual of starting a small vegetable farm.

JEAN-MARTIN FORTIER and his wife Maude-Hélène Desroches are the founders of Les Jardins de la Grelinette, an internationally recognized micro-farm known for its high productivity and profitability using low-tech, high-yield methods of production. Covering the soil with an opaque tarp for a few weeks is how we manage to clean the surface of our beds without having to work the soil. His focus on hand tools and on high-density production makes this a book that will s. I put off picking up this book because I have no inclination to sell any of my food, even though I devote quite a lot of time to producing all the vegetables my husband and I eat in a year. Even if you have no intention of selling anything you produce, this book provides great information on crop rotation, organic methods of fertilization, and successive planting - basically everything needed to keep your garden organic as well as maintaining the highest pro.

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Growing on just 1.5 acres, Jean-Martin and Maude-Helene feed more than 200 families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands. This book was an inspiration for many of our French members (we are a farmers' co-op) and now we can recommend it to all.... especially to the new generation interested in small scale farming...Thank you." Definitely recommend it for a medium scale start-up us main is. Please try again.

I drastically reduced some crops and significantly increased others. Jean-Martin Fortier and his wife Maude-Helene Desroches are the founders of Les Jardins de la Grelinette, an internationally recognized micro-farm famous for its high productivity-profitability using low-tech, high-yield methods of production. Seems like a very helpful, thorough, evidence-based guide to profitable small-scale farming. Fortier, in learning from his own experience on his own farm in Quebec, lays out the methods and logistics of owning, planting and sustainably running a small yet profitable organic farm. The New Organic Grower, 3rd Edition: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, 30th Anniversary Edition, The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land, Compact Farms: 15 Proven Plans for Market Farms on 5 Acres or Less; Includes Detailed Farm Layouts for Productivity and Efficiency, Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition, The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work, The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach, "Jean-Martin's book is very well done and should be of great use to market growers everywhere. ― Adam Lemieux, Product Manager of Tools & Supplies, Johnny's Selected Seeds.

This is one of my favorite gardening books, due to Fortier's excellent writing and practical knowledge running a small organic farm.

This is the wrong way to try to model some new, better version of society.

What could possibly go wrong with this purchase?

I started reading another "market gardener" book at the same time, but found Fortier's book to be far easier to read, and the language far more accessible (perhaps due to the original being written that way, or the translator). Great if you are looking to market garden full time.

Inspirational, ok but not Stella book as an introduction to commercial gardening, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2019, A mix of some information covered in many other gardening books, such as soil care and some very useful market gardening info. I appreciate Fortier authoring such a comprehensive handbook about his growing operations, and I certainly learned a lot, but I doubt I will use many of his methods in my future vegetable farm because I disagree with his basic principles about what small-scale organic farming should be.

The Market Gardener is about substance, not fluff.

The Market Gardener - A comprehensive guide to small-scale farming.

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So much information packed into this book - my head was spinning. Too wonky and specific for a home gardener, however there are useful tips to be had! He gardens on one and a half acres, which is a very reasonable amount of land that many folks on acreages have access to. hi , I am just wondering if the methods as practised in this book , would be suitable in a tropical country ? To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. The book that... Severine von Tscharner Fleming, The Greenhorns, Les Jardins de la Grelinette is a micro-farm located in eastern Quebec, just north of the American border. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App.

― Eliot Coleman, organic farming pioneer and author, Winter Harvest Handbook, This is a fantastic addition to any aspiring market gardener's library... ― Josh Volk, Slow Hand Farm, Portland, Oregon.

I drastically reduced some crops and significantly increased others.

No matter your goal, if you like to grow things and want to do so in a sustainable fashion, The Market Gardener is a good book to have under your belt and I can't recommend it highly enough. Growing on just 1.5 acres, owners Jean-Martin and Maude-Helène feed more than two hundred families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands and supply their signature mesclun salad mix to dozens of local establishments.

grew his garden into a business that sets the trend for future food growers. New Society Publishers; Illustrated Edition (March 1, 2014), Well done- saving me a year of research and countless cost and mis-steps, Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2019. This is truly an exceptional book, one that I refer to regularly as a home gardener.
(I push spacing with square-foot gardening concepts, and it looks like I can push it even harder).

Fortier is on the cutting edge of small-scale growing, and I look forward to learning more about his new research farm in his next book. ― Michel Michiels, Arlon / Belgium, "We are so excited that Le Jardinier-Maraîcher is finally translated in English! "- Adam Lemieux, Product Manager of Tools & Supplies, Johnny's Selected Seeds, Copyright © 2019 The Market Gardener All rights reserved | Website by Suleyka Media. Because it’s precisely these “easy way out” approaches of row covering, plastic mulching, mineral amendments, and spraying for pests and fungus (however “natural”) that led us from a sustainable farming system in the pre-fossil fuel days to this energy-intensive, net-loss, absolutely destructive system of agriculture that threatens life on this planet. Really insightful. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Making a living wage farming without big capital outlay or acreages may be closer than you think.

I stumbled across The Market Gardener while searching for ways to (organically) maximize the yield I could get from my tiny back yard vegetable garden.

I shouldn't have delayed.

- Frank Kaminski, Resilience.org, Jean-Martin Fortier’s The Market Gardener is the book to have at your hand, on the table while you eat lunch, on your bedside table for the few minutes before sleep. Maybe it doesn't explains in depth all of them but in these cases always leaves reader with references to more specific research. - Jordan Collin, Aotearoa Market Garden, New Zealand, "Jean-Martin Fortier 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. Because to treat growing food as any more than an unpredictable, uncontrollable beast is to assume one can command Mother Nature. ), I put off picking up this book because I have no inclination to sell any of my food, even though I devote quite a lot of time to producing all the vegetables my husband and I eat in a year.

Exchange of ideas and information is so important because when we pass ideas on, the next person gets to start where we got to and take the ideas to another level." He 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."

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This is one of my favorite gardening books, due to Fortier's excellent writing and practical knowledge running a small organic farm. This is a direct, clear, guide for day-to-day operations of your small farm. It goes to show that you can be a very profitable farm on small acreage without the pesticides, without the chemical fertilizers and without the giant tractor/combine systems (not to mention the accompanying financing and debt) used by standard commercial farms.
There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Book Review, The Market Gardener, Jean-Martin Fortier, I started reading another "market gardener" book at the same time, but found Fortier's book to be far easier to read, and the language far more accessible (perhaps due to the original being written that way, or the translator). As my garden has grown from backyard plot to mini-farm size, I've increasingly incorporated the techniqu. March 4th 2014 Growers in warmer climates should be careful however to keep in mind that the specifics of planting/scheduling etc.

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