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Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres
Pam Dawling
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Description for Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres
Paperback. Growing for 100 -- the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower. Num Pages: 456 pages, B&W photographs and illustrations throughout; 8-page color section. BIC Classification: TVF; TVK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 203 x 28. Weight in Grams: 949.
Across North America, an agricultural renaissance is unfolding. A growing number of market gardeners are emerging to feed our appetite for organic, regional produce. But most of the available resources on food production are aimed at the backyard or hobby gardener who wants to supplement their family's diet with a few homegrown fruits and vegetables. Targeted at serious growers in every climate zone, Sustainable Market Farming is a comprehensive manual for small-scale farmers raising organic crops sustainably on a few acres. Informed by the author's extensive experience growing a wide variety of fresh, organic vegetables and fruit to feed the approximately one hundred members of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia, this practical guide provides: * Detailed profiles of a full range of crops, addressing sowing, cultivation, rotation, succession, common pests and diseases, and harvest and storage * Information about new, efficient techniques, season extension, and disease resistant varieties * Farm-specific business skills to help ensure a successful, profitable enterprise Whether you are a beginning market grower or an established enterprise seeking to improve your skills, Sustainable Market Farming is an invaluable resource and a timely book for the maturing local agriculture movement. Pam Dawling is a contributing editor with Growing for Market magazine. An avid vegetable grower, she has been farming as a member of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia for over twenty years, where she helps grow food for around one hundred people on three and a half acres, and provides training in sustainable vegetable production.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Gabriola Island, United States
ISBN
9780865717169
SKU
V9780865717169
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Pam Dawling
Pam Dawling is a contributing editor with Growing For Market magazine. An avid vegetable grower for 38 years, she has been farming as a member of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia for over 20 years, where she helps grow food for around 100 people on three and a half acres and provides training in sustainable vegetable production. Pam's farming experience includes caring for cows, sheep, goats, pigs, bees, chickens, ducks and geese; growing small acreages of wheat, barley, oats, field beans and hay, using old farm implements, and growing and cooking more than sixty different kinds of vegetables and fruits.
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