Sustainable Market Farming

Sustainable Market Farming
Author: Pam Dawling
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1550925121

Growing for 100 - the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower. 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.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1908
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1652
Release: 1901
Genre:
ISBN:

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: Edwin Mead Wilcox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1906
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

The Sweetpotato

The Sweetpotato
Author: Gad Loebenstein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2009-03-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402094752

In the last four decades of the twentieth century the use of sweetpotato was diversified beyond their classification as subsistence, food security, and famine-relief crop. In developing countries they serve both as human food and for feeding livestock. In Western countries they appeal to health conscious consumers because of their nutritional aspects. The sweetpotato is very high in nutritive value, and merits wider use on this account alone. The book has 2 parts. A general one giving up-to-date information on the history, botany, cultivars, genetic engineering, propagation, diseases and pests, nutritional data and marketing; and a second part presenting data on sweetpotato growing practices in different areas of the world. The information should be useful to researchers, practitioners and crop administrators in different countries.

Bulletins

Bulletins
Author: Maryland. Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
Total Pages: 668
Release: 1896
Genre:
ISBN:

Sweetpotato

Sweetpotato
Author:
Publisher: International Potato Center
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1997
Genre: Sweet potatoes
ISBN: 9789290601876