The Well Planned Vegetable Garden - (Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener) by Jean-Martin Fortier (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Save time, reduce work, and grow more crops with this practical year-round guide to small-farm and garden success

Organization is the key to growing success. The Well-Planned Vegetable Garden covers everything you need to know from optimizing your space and selecting seeds and equipment, to sowing, transplanting, maintaining, and harvesting your crops. It's all rounded out by an extensive perpetual garden calendar that will help you manage time and effort while maximizing yield and profit.

This highly accessible, succinct, and beautifully illustrated full-color reference contains:

• An introduction to the Market Gardener Method -- a proven formula for successful, biointensive, small-scale farming suitable for everyone from hobbyists to professionals
• A comprehensive strategy for success, covering budgeting and financial goals, environmental and climate considerations, year-round growing, crop rotation, timing, spacing, storage, and more
• Monthly objectives and task summaries to help dial in and streamline garden and farm management, working in harmony with seasonal rhythms.

Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener is a collection of practical handbooks designed to provide everyone from novice gardeners to seasoned farmers with information to grow better, using Jean-Martin Fortier's principles of biointensive, regenerative agriculture at a human scale.

About the Author

Jean-Martin Fortier, a distinguished farmer, author, and educator, has been spearheading a movement in ecological agriculture for over twenty years. Since 2004, he and his wife have been operating Les Jardins de la Grelinette, an efficient and productive 2-acre microfarm. This farm is often referred to as a blueprint for effective human-scale organic farming.

In 2015, Jean-Martin established La Ferme des Quatre-Temps, a research farm dedicated to training apprentices and developing new strategies for market gardening, including year-round production. His pioneering methods are taught worldwide through the Market Gardener Institute, which is present in more than 90 countries.

Jean-Martin is the author of The Winter Market Gardener and The Market Gardener, which have sold over a quarter of a million copies in nine languages. His contributions to organic farming and regenerative agriculture have earned him the Meritorious Service Cross from the Governor General of Canada. He farms and lives in Quebec, Canada.

Pierre Nessmann was born to a family of Strasbourg market gardeners and holds a degree from the École d'Horticulture de Genève, in Switzerland. He has worked as a landscape gardener and a journalist for over 40 years. He is the assistant editor of the popular French gardening magazines Rustica Pratique and Rustica Weekly, covers gardening and DIY stories for the French television Network TF1, and currently hosts a gardening segment on the show Nous Voilà Bien, on the French radio station RTL. He is the author of several books about vegetable growing, gardening, and landscaping. Pierre lives in Paris, France.

Flore Avram is a freelance artist and graphic designer specializing in scientific and botanical illustration. She has collaborated extensively with the French language children's publisher KiloWatt Editions, and with Inserm Magazine, a quarterly journal which explores health and biomedical research. Flore has earned several professional certifications in graphic design and scientific illustration from L'Ecole Estienne, the Municipal Graduate School of the Arts and Printing Industry. She also works as a Médiatrice en botanique at Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil, a unique French natural heritage site and eco-garden. She is based in Paris, France.