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Root Vegetables

A Grower's Guide

Root Vegetables: A Grower’s Guide offers an essential roadmap to cultivating Jean-Martin Fortier’s 20 favorite varieties using biointensive techniques. Discover hidden gems for your garden, from staples to heirloom curiosities, with detailed guidance on growing, managing, and harvesting nutrient-packed root crops.

Editor: Pierre Nessmann

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This item will be released September 9, 2025.

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Master the art of growing nutritious, versatile, and flavorful root vegetables with Jean-Martin Fortier’s biointensive farming methods.

Root Vegetables: A Grower’s Guide uncovers the secrets to cultivating a wide range of root crops, from familiar favorites like potatoes and carrots to lesser-known gems like oca and salsify. Jean-Martin Fortier’s biointensive approach maximizes yield while nurturing soil health, making this guide invaluable to home gardeners and market farmers alike.

This richly illustrated, full-color guide includes:

  • A step-by-step introduction to “The Fortier Method” for sustainable, high-yield microfarming
  • Botanical insights into root vegetables, from ancient wild varieties to modern cultivars
  • Detailed profiles of 20 nutritious and versatile crops, with practical advice on growing each
  • Techniques for soil preparation, sowing, transplanting, fertilizing, and irrigation
  • Organic practices for managing pests, diseases, and crop rotations
  • Tips for optimizing harvest and storage to preserve flavor and nutrition.

Root Vegetables is part of the Grower’s Guides from the Market Gardener series. It’s designed to provide novice to expert growers with practical knowledge to succeed using the principles of biointensive, regenerative agriculture on a human scale.

About The Author(s)

Jean-Martin Fortier is a farmer, author, educator, and advocate for regenerative, human-scale, profitable agriculture. For over 20 years he and his wife Maude-Helene Desroches have operated les Jardins de la Grelinette, a successful 2-acre microfarm. His bestselling book The Market Gardener, which has sold a quarter million copies in nine languages, describes the biointensive principles used at his micro-farm. In 2015, he established a research farm, la Ferme des Quatre-Temps, where he trains apprentices and develops new strategies for market gardening, including year-round production. His methods of production are taught to a worldwide audience through the Market Gardener Masterclass, an online course of the Market Gardener Institute, which is tailored to small-scale food growers. He is the founder of Growers & Co., a tool and apparel company which celebrates sustainable, local, and equitable food producers. Jean-Martin farms and lives in Quebec, Canada.

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Book Specifications

ISBN: 9781774060179

Page Count: 128

Dimensions: 5.25 × 7 × 0.31 in

Publication Date: September 09, 2025

Images: Full Color

Translated by: Laurie Bennett

Illustrator:

Flore Avram

Part of the Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener

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