The Market Gardener by Jean-Martin Fortier is a guidebook to optimising your way into a profitable income from small-scale organic farming – with little start-up capital required.
What is this?
How-to handbook for making a living wage by bootstrapping a small-scale organic market garden.
Based on the real-life experience of the author, Jean-Martin Fortier and his wife, who established a micro-farming outfit that feeds 200 families on just 1.5 acres.
Who is this for?
Anyone with a small acreage holding who wants to grow a profitable market garden that earns them a full-time living.
What you’ll get?
400+ pages of detailed instruction for growing your own low-tech, high-yield market garden. Littered with techniques, methods, and practicals for converting your 1.5-acre holding into a thriving, productive market garden business.
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Outline
- Small is profitable
- Succeeding as a small-scale organic vegetable grower
- Finding the right site
- Designing the market garden
- Minimum tillage and appropriate machinery
- Fertilising organically
- Starting seeds indoors
- Direct seeding
- Weed management
- Insects, pests and diseases
- Season extension
- Harvest and storage
- Crop planning
The Smallholdings Team.
