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Pawpaws Blake Cothron

Pawpaws By Blake Cothron

Pawpaws by Blake Cothron

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Pawpaws is an in-depth guide to growing and marketing North America's forgotten native fruit at small commercial orchard scale. Coverage includes selecting cultivars, orchard planning, propagating, organic growing, pest management, harvesting, marketing, and value-added products.

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Pawpaws: The Complete Growing and Marketing Guide by Blake Cothron

Discover a fresh new offering for your farm or orchard business

Pawpaws is the first in-depth guide to small-scale commercial cultivation of pawpaws. Also known as Indiana bananas or hipster bananas, this almost forgotten fruit, native to North America, is making a huge comeback with foodies, chefs, craft brewers, and discerning fruit-lovers.

Written by, and for, the organic grower, coverage includes:

  • Botany and the cultural history of pawpaws
  • Orchard siting and planning
  • Choosing the best-quality nursery trees
  • Descriptions of over 50 cultivars
  • Propagation and organic growing tips
  • Pests and disease management
  • Marketing and selling fresh pawpaws, seeds, and starts
  • Processing and producing value-added products.

Get ahead of the farming curve, diversify your orchard or food forest, and discover the commercial potential of America's almost forgotten native fruit with this comprehensive manual to small-scale commercial pawpaw production.

About Blake Cothron

Blake Cothron is an organic farmer, nurseryman, musician, poet, writer, educator, scientist, devotee, and mystic, with over 20 years' experience in organic agriculture, botany, horticulture, and growing food. Blake owns and operates Heritage Nursery, a 4-acre USDA Certified Organic research farm, orchard, and edible plant nursery, with a special interest in pawpaws. He shares his two decades of experience in organic agriculture and horticulture through magazine articles, including in Permaculture Design, online publications, public speaking engagements, and blogging. Blake is also a speaker and educator for OAK (Organic Association of Kentucky), an educational blogger at peacefulheritage.com, and a YouTuber. He splits his time between farming, research, gardening, travel, yoga, meditation, and being a husband and father. He lives with his wife and son in beautiful Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1: Foraging for Wild Pawpaws
Chapter 2: Description of North American Pawpaw Fruit
Chapter 3: Flowering and Pollination
Chapter 4: Site Design and Planting
Chapter 5: Choosing Your Trees
Chapter 6: Maintaining the Orchard
Chapter 7: Harvesting Pawpaw Fruit
Chapter 8: Tree Propagation
Chapter 9: Pests, Diseases, Disorders and Their Management
Chapter 10: Pawpaw Fruit Marketing Strategies
Chapter 11: Pawpaw Cultivars
Chapter 12: Troubleshooting, Cost Analysis, and Calendar
Chapter 13: Conclusion

Resources
Notes
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers

Additional information

CIN0865719551VG
9780865719552
0865719551
Pawpaws: The Complete Growing and Marketing Guide by Blake Cothron
Blake Cothron
Used - Very Good
Paperback
New Society Publishers
2021-05-04
248
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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