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082 _a635.0484
_bFOR 2014
100 1 _aFortier, Jean-Martin,
_d1978-
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe market gardener :
_ba successful grower's handbook for small-scale organic farming /
_cJean-Martin Fortier ; foreword by Severine von Tscharner Fleming, the Greenhorns ; illustrations by Marie Bilodeau ; [English translation by Scott Irving, Edgar Translation.]
260 _aCanda :
_bNew Society Publishers :
_cc2014
300 _axvi, 223 pages :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index.
520 _aOffers 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.
586 _a2015 Winner of an American Horticulture Society Book Award.
650 0 _aOrganic gardening.
650 0 _aBiointensive gardening.
650 0 _aPermaculture.
650 0 _aTruck farming.
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