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Sustainable Market Farming, Second Edition

Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres

Sustainable Market Farming is the comprehensive reference for serious growers. Fully revised and updated, this new edition distills over 30 years of organic vegetable production experience into a complete practical guide covering everything from planning to harvest, including in-depth profiles of a full range of crops.

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This item will be released April 15, 2025.

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The complete year-round guide to organic vegetable production for market gardeners and small-scale farmers – now fully revised and updated

Sustainable Market Farming is the comprehensive, go-to reference for serious growers in every climate zone. Extensively revised and updated, this brand new, fully illustrated edition is packed with detailed information on everything from planning to harvest, and features in-depth profiles of a full range of crops.

Informed by the author’s experience leading decades of intensive year-round organic vegetable production on a few acres to feed a community of 100 people, this complete practical guide includes:

  • The most current farm-specific planning and organizational business skills to ensure a profitable, successful, smooth-running, professional enterprise
  • Cutting-edge information describing new and efficient techniques, strategies for season extension, approaches for integrated pest, disease, and weed management, and preferred climate-smart, disease-resistant varieties to add to your repertoire
  • Updated guidelines for improving and maintaining soil quality and finding resilient, regenerative solutions to align farming practices with new environmental challenges
  • Precise growing guides for a cornucopia of vegetables, addressing selection of varieties, soil, water, and fertility requirements, sowing, cultivation, crop rotation, succession planting, common pests and diseases, harvest, storage, and more.

Whether you are a beginning grower, an aspiring market gardener, or an established enterprise seeking to take your operation to the next level, Sustainable Market Farming is the book you will find yourself returning to again and again throughout a long farming career. An exciting, timely, and invaluable resource.

About The Author(s)

Pam Dawling has been farming and providing training in sustainable vegetable production in a large variety of climates for over 40 years, 14 of which have been hoophouse growing. Pam’s first book is the best-selling Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres. Pam is a contributing editor with Growing for Market magazine, has written articles and information sheets for various biological farming publications, and is a popular speaker on growing vegetables at sustainable agriculture conferences and events each year. She blogs weekly at sustainablemarketfarming.com and monthly on the Mother Earth News Organic Gardening Blog. Pam does consultancy work for new and beginning farmers, and for 25 years was the manager of Twin Oaks community farm in Virginia, which feeds the 100 community members year-round. She lives and grows at Twin Oaks in Louisa, Virginia.

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Book Specifications

ISBN: 9781774060018

Page Count: 528

Dimensions: 7.5 × 9 × 1.2 in

Publication Date: April 15, 2025

Images: 250 color images

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