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The Winter Market Gardener

A Successful Grower's Handbook for Year-Round Harvests
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The Winter Market Gardener by Catherine Sylvestre and Jean-Martin Fortier is an insightful guide that delves into the techniques of successful organic farming during the cold season. It explores how to extend the growing season, ensuring a bountiful harvest using sustainable methods even in winter. Perfect for both novice and experienced gardeners, this book provides practical advice to maximise efficiency and productivity year-round.
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You might enjoy this book if you are passionate about sustainable agriculture and interested in learning techniques for growing vegetables in cold climates. With practical advice and innovative methods, it offers insights into extending the farming season and making winter market gardening profitable and eco-friendly. If you have a keen interest in improving your farming skills while minimising environmental impact, this book provides plenty of inspiration and guidance.

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The Winter Market Gardener is a guide to year-round vegetable production. Based on years of experimentation in techniques, tools, and cultivars, it presents planting, care, and harvesting details for dozens of winter crops that earn money and provide the highest quality, most delicious produce for local markets.

Profitable winter market gardening – the complete practical guide to growing vegetables year-round in northern climates for local markets

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Profitable winter market gardening - the complete practical guide to growing vegetables year-round in northern climates for local markets.

Many small farms shut down during the dark winter months. Yet with the right techniques, equipment, and cultivars, year-round growing can produce the highest quality and tastiest fresh local vegetables, all while banking a profit.

Building on years of research, experimentation, and collaboration, The Winter Market Gardener is a beautifully illustrated practical guide to winter vegetable production for small farmers growing in northern climates. Coverage includes:

  • Unique aspects of year-round vegetable production, including superior flavour and the promotion of seasonality in eating
  • Dozens of detailed vegetable profiles featuring recommended cultivars and crop-specific tips and techniques for bountiful winter harvests
  • Details for calculating optimal seeding dates, crop spacing, care, pest management, weed control, and harvesting
  • Selecting shelters for your crops and climate, including row covers, low tunnels, caterpillar tunnels, and high tunnels
  • The costs and benefits of heated versus unheated greenhouses
  • Tool selection and use for efficiency
  • Winter storage crops and successful autumn growing
  • Crop planning details for winter-season production

Whether you are an experienced farmer or market grower, enthusiastic amateur, or committed consumer, The Winter Market Gardener will excite, inspire and empower you to embrace the seasons and work with nature to produce and enjoy superior-quality local vegetables all year.

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Reviews highlight The Winter Market Gardener as an essential and practical guide for those interested in extending their market gardening into the winter months. It offers valuable planning tips, research insights, and practical advice for cold-climate growers. The book, praised for its comprehensiveness and engaging content, draws on established practices while introducing innovative techniques to help communities rely on local, fresh food throughout the year.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780865719873

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: New Society Publishers

Illustration: 150 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Translated by Laurie Bennett

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 612g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Jean-Martin Fortier is a farmer, educator and advocate for regenerative agriculture. He is author of the international bestseller The Market Gardener, founder of Growers & Co., and co-founder of the Market Gardener Institute. In 2015 he established the research farm la Ferme des Quatre-Temps. He lives and farms in Quebec, Canada.

Catherine Sylvestre is a professional agronomist and director of vegetable production and leader of the market garden team at la Ferme des Quatre-Temps. She develops, implements and teaches best practices for cold season growing, specialising in crop protection and greenhouse production for northern climates. She lives in Quebec, Canada.

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