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Les Jardins de la Grelinette, a 1.5‑acre micro‑farm just north of the American border in eastern Quebec, supplies more than two hundred families through a thriving community‑supported agriculture program and seasonal market stands. Owner Jean‑Martin Fortier, inspired by French maraîchage and Eliot Coleman, details the low‑tech, high‑yield techniques that make the operation profitable without large capital or acreage. The book offers practical instructions for designing biologically intensive cropping systems, minimizing fossil fuel use with hand tools and minimal tillage, managing mixed vegetables for optimal weed and pest control, and determining yields and pricing. It is a comprehensive guide to starting a market garden that is both productive and profitable.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics/Entrepreneurship
Authors: Jean-Martin Fortier
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