Storey's guide to growing organic vegetables & herbs for market

by Keith Stewart
Book - 2013

Keith Stewart addresses everything you need to know to successfully grow and market organic vegetables and herbs, covering land, equipment, crop mix, growing techniques, irrigation, soil fertility, pests, greenhouses, harvesting, storage, labor, debt, customer management, sales, accounting, and much more. With this comprehensive guide, you can turn your dream of a thriving farm into a profitable reality.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart, Keith, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: North Adams, MA : Storey Pub., c2013.
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300 |a 559 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 24 cm. 
520 |a Keith Stewart addresses everything you need to know to successfully grow and market organic vegetables and herbs, covering land, equipment, crop mix, growing techniques, irrigation, soil fertility, pests, greenhouses, harvesting, storage, labor, debt, customer management, sales, accounting, and much more. With this comprehensive guide, you can turn your dream of a thriving farm into a profitable reality. 
500 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-538) and index. 
505 0 |a Thinking about becoming a farmer? -- Looking for a place of your own -- The farm plan -- Tractors and tractor implements -- Small equipment and tools -- The greenhouse -- Growing under cover -- Irrigation -- Managing your soil -- Cover crops and green manures -- Crop rotation -- Building fertility -- Our most profitable crops -- Garlic our signature crop -- Let's not forget herbs -- Harvesting and storage -- Marketing what you grow -- More on farmers' markets -- Marketing through the seasons -- Regarding weeds -- The four-legged competition -- Insects and diseases -- Running a business -- Looking after number one. 
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650 0 |a Herbs  |x Organic farming. 
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