Market Farming Success : : the Business of Growing and Selling Local Food
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Getting started in market farming -- The markets -- The crops -- Equipment and tools -- Planning your production -- Planting and tending your crops -- From field to market -- Managing your business -- Where to learn more.
Market Farming Success is an indispensable guide to market gardening and farming for those in the business of growing and selling food, flowers, herbs, or plants. Condensing decades of growing experience from every part of the United States and Canada, Lynn Byczynski - editor and publisher of Growing for Market - identifies crucial areas that usually trip up beginners and shows growers how to avoid common obstacles. This book differentiates between market gardens, market farms, and vegetable farms, offering a concise and useful overview of how to find land, select and grow crops, acquire appropriate equipment, and market your produce, as well as tackle recordkeeping, insurance, and other fundamental business topics.--COVER.
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PUBLISHED
White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: viii, 275 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781603583862
1603583866
SUBJECTS
Truck farming.
Vegetable gardening.
Farm management.
Farm management -- Decision making.