The Market Gardener

Name: The Market Gardener
ISBN: 9781550925555

A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming

by Jean-Martin Fortier

Why it's on the shelf

How to grow a lot of vegetables profitably on about an acre and a half, with hand tools.

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Sources

Mel Bartholomew, Square Foot Gardening Foundation

A simple, grid-based way to grow a lot of food in a small raised bed. Easy for first-time gardeners.

Carleen Madigan

What you can produce on a quarter acre: vegetables, fruit, chickens, and more. A friendly overview.

Carla Emery

Carla Emery's massive reference on growing, raising, preserving, and cooking food. If you only keep one homesteading book, many people pick this one.

Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch

Eliot Coleman shows how to harvest vegetables all winter with cold frames and unheated tunnels.