Storey's Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables & Herbs for Market: Site & Crop Selection Planting, Care & Harvesting Business Basics

Stewart, Keith

ISBN 10: 1603425713 / ISBN 13: 9781603425711

Published by Storey Books, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Storey's Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables & Herbs for Market: Site & Crop Selection Planting, Care & Harvesting Business Basics
• Publisher: Storey Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603425713
• ISBN 13: 9781603425711
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Keith Stewart covers everything you need to know to successfully grow and market your own organic vegetables and herbs. Offering expert tips on choosing a growing site, soil fertility, companion planting, irrigation, organic farming techniques, dealing with pests, and harvesting, Stewart also helps you design a business plan, manage employees, and find niche markets for your produce.

About the Author

Keith Stewart is a NOFA-NY certified organic vegetable grower in Westtown, New York, who has been selling to the NYC Union Square Greenmarket since it began. Keith’s garlic has been called “the most soulful garlic on earth” by Time Out New York. The New York Times said, “Keith’s farm grows garlic from another planet compared with the stuff in supermarkets.” He is the author of It’s a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life. His essays appear in The Valley Table, “the Hudson Valley’s only magazine devoted to regional farms, food, and cuisine.”