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Sustainable Market Farming By Pam Dawling

Sustainable Market Farming by Pam Dawling


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Growing for 100 -- the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower.

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Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres by Pam Dawling

Across North America, an agricultural renaissance is unfolding. A growing number of market gardeners are emerging to feed our appetite for organic, regional produce. But most of the available resources on food production are aimed at the backyard or hobby gardener who wants to supplement their family's diet with a few homegrown fruits and vegetables. Targeted at serious growers in every climate zone, Sustainable Market Farming is a comprehensive manual for small-scale farmers raising organic crops sustainably on a few acres. Informed by the author's extensive experience growing a wide variety of fresh, organic vegetables and fruit to feed the approximately one hundred members of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia, this practical guide provides: * Detailed profiles of a full range of crops, addressing sowing, cultivation, rotation, succession, common pests and diseases, and harvest and storage * Information about new, efficient techniques, season extension, and disease resistant varieties * Farm-specific business skills to help ensure a successful, profitable enterprise Whether you are a beginning market grower or an established enterprise seeking to improve your skills, Sustainable Market Farming is an invaluable resource and a timely book for the maturing local agriculture movement. Pam Dawling is a contributing editor with Growing for Market magazine. An avid vegetable grower, she has been farming as a member of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia for over twenty years, where she helps grow food for around one hundred people on three and a half acres, and provides training in sustainable vegetable production.

About Pam Dawling

Pam Dawling is a contributing editor with Growing For Market magazine. An avid vegetable grower for 38 years, she has been farming as a member of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia for over 20 years, where she helps grow food for around 100 people on three and a half acres and provides training in sustainable vegetable production. Pam's farming experience includes caring for cows, sheep, goats, pigs, bees, chickens, ducks and geese; growing small acreages of wheat, barley, oats, field beans and hay, using old farm implements, and growing and cooking more than sixty different kinds of vegetables and fruits.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Lynn Byczynski
Introduction: Sustaining Community and Agriculture

PART 1: TECHNIQUES

Planning

  1. Year-Round Production
  2. Create Your Own Field Manual
  3. Crop Review
  4. Crop Rotations for Vegetables and Cover Crops
  5. Seed Storage, Inventory and Orders
  6. Scheduling Transplants
  7. How Much to Grow

Planting

  1. Crop Spacing
  2. Transplanting Tips
  3. Direct Sowing
  4. Summer Germination of Seeds
  5. Succession Planting for Continuous Harvesting

Sustainable Crop Protection

  1. Season Extension
  2. Cold-Hardy Winter Vegetables
  3. The Hoophouse in Winter and Spring
  4. The Hoophouse in Summer

Soil and Crop Quality

  1. Maintaining Soil Fertility
  2. Cover Crops
  3. Cover Crops Chart
  4. Sustainable Disease Management
  5. Sustainable Weed Management
  6. Sustainable Pest Management

Harvest and Beyond

  1. Manual Harvesting Techniques
  2. Winter Vegetable Storage (Without Refrigeration)
  3. Root Cellars

PART 2: CROPS

Legumes

  1. Green Beans
  2. Southern Peas, Asparagus Beans and Limas
  3. Fava Beans
  4. Edamame
  5. Snap Peas and Snow Peas
  6. Peanuts

Brassicas

  1. Broccoli, Cabbage, Kale and Collards in Spring
  2. Broccoli, Cabbage, Kale and Collards in Fall
  3. Asian Greens

Other Greens

  1. Spinach
  2. Chard and Other Summer Cooking Greens
  3. Lettuce All Year Round

Roots

  1. Carrots, Beets and Parsnips
  2. Celery and Celeriac
  3. Turnips and Rutabagas

Cucurbits

  1. Summer Squash and Zucchini
  2. Winter Squash and Pumpkins
  3. Cucumbers and Muskmelons
  4. Watermelon

Alliums

  1. Garlic
  2. Bulb Onions
  3. Potato Onions
  4. Leeks

Nightshades

  1. Tomatoes
  2. Peppers
  3. Eggplant
  4. Potatoes

The Others

  1. Okra
  2. Sweet Corn
  3. Sweet Potatoes

Seed Crop Production

  1. Seed Growing
  2. The Business of Seed Crops by Ira Wallace

Resources
Index
About The Author

Additional information

CIN0865717168VG
9780865717169
0865717168
Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres by Pam Dawling
Used - Very Good
Paperback
New Society Publishers
2013-02-01
456
N/A
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