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Info request from a newbie

Posted by cherylspenc z5b-CO (My Page) on
Mon, Nov 29, 04 at 12:25

I am seriously considering starting a market garden. I have a pretty extensive organic-gardening book colletion and am an experienced home gardener, but would like to get some input from people on books and websites that would be useful for someone starting out in the market gardening/farming business.

Any and all suggestions are welcome.


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RE: Info request from a newbie

Here are a couple of great books:

Marcie Rozenzweig, The New farmer's Market
Sell What you Sow, Eric Gibson
Growing For Market newsletter


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I can get lost for days at http://www.newfarm.org/. Check out the grassroots opx pricing. Not much there now, but it was full of info during the busier season. I think I have read 1000 of the "1000 stories". Hope this helps.

Patty


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RE: Info request from a newbie

I haven't ready many, but of the one's I have that were definitely worth it, these are real practical and browsable, you can pick and choose stuff or read 'em whole:

"The New Organic Grower", Eliot Coleman, a standard recommendation, great

"Four-Season Harvest", E. Coleman also, aimed at home gardener but full of stuff good for the small-scale grower, too

"The Victory Garden Cookbook" by Marian Morash, combines gardening and cooking stuff, I find it great more for the veggie marketing side...you have to check it out to see what I mean (amazon.ca has a look inside sampler of some pages)

Johnny's Selected Seed annual commercial catalog (free by mail, http://johnnyseeds.com ), this is a fine market gardening reference that happens to be a catalog, too!


 
 

 

 


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