Fortier, Jean-Martin, 1978-

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, Edgar Translation.] - Canda : New Society Publishers : c2014 - xvi, 223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index.

Offers information on setting up a micro-farm, with negligible capital outlay, by designing biologically intensive cropping systems, including crop yields, harvest periods, hand tools to use, appropriate machinery, and pricing approaches.

2015 Winner of an American Horticulture Society Book Award.

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Organic gardening.
Biointensive gardening.
Permaculture.
Truck farming.

635.0484 / FOR 2014