Storey's guide to growing organic vegetables & herbs for market : site & crop selection planting, care & harvesting business basic / Keith Stewart.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781603425711
- ISBN: 1603425713
- ISBN: 9781612120072
- ISBN: 1612120075
- Physical Description: 559 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: North Adams, MA : Storey Pub., 2013.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-541) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Thinking about becoming a farmer? -- The big step: looking for a place of your own -- Getting organized: the farm plan and its component parts -- Tractors and tractor implements -- Small equipment and tools -- The greenhouse -- Growing under cover: high tunnels, low tunnels, and caterpillars -- Irrigation -- About soil: managing your soil for health and fertility -- 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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | 631.584 STE (Text)
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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.
