| Details | | Publication Date: | 1992-08-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 20.8 oz |
Publisher's Note Discover how easy and profitable it is to grow and sell vegetables, fruit, flowers, and livestock from your own backyard market garden.
The author puts over 20 years of vegetable growing & small business experience into this handbook for beginning & experienced agricultural entrepreneurs. A complete guide to business management & marketing for the small scale vegetable grower. Contains a wealth of information on budgets, crop planning, direct marketing, farmers' markets, roadside & farm stands, food cooperatives, caterers, mail order, restaurants, pick your own, wholesale distributors, producers' cooperatives, & subscription marketing services such as clientele membership clubs, community supported farms, & home deliveries. Covers innovative & appropriately scaled equipment for the greenhouses & fields, labor requirements & training methods, locating & improving land for growing & retailing sites, & gives a very strong argument for the economic & ecologic benefits of organic & sustainable growing methods. The author is a small farm business consultant & manages both a 120 member community supported farm & a commercial market garden. He also teaches alternative agriculture through the University of Vermont's College of Agriculture intern training program. Systems & concepts taught in this book have multiple applications in all regions of the nation & in developing countries throughout the world.
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