BACKYARD MARKET GARDENING: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling What You Grow
MONEY GROWS IN YOUR GARDEN–CLASSIC BOOK
"This book is the definitive how-to guide for market gardening." (ACRES USA)
Here is the classic flagship book that helped establish farmers’ markets world wide. Discover how easy and profitable it is to grow and sell vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs and small livestock from your own Backyard Market Garden.
Learn how others grow and sell:
• 14,000 pounds of food, on less than one-eighth acre — Ohio
• $150,000 from one-half acre, to fancy restaurants — California
• $40,000 from one acre of oriental raised beds — Oregon
• $36,000 from 3/4 acre, to city farmers’ markets — Massachusetts Learn how you can:
• Earn top dollar, with minimum effort and maximum profits.
• Grow high-value crops in small spaces, efficiently and quickly.
• Create markets that are profitable, reliable, fun and sustainable.
• Improve your garden soil for super yields and superb flavor.
• Buy or build tools that speed your work and increase profits.
Find your market niche in: membership gardening, community supported agriculture, farmers’ markets, card table in your front yard, farm stands, clientele membership clubs, producers cooperatives, restaurants, caterers, institutions, pick your own and even growing specialty crops for your neighbor’s salsa recipe.
“BACKYARD MARKET GARDENING is the book that shows you how to do what you can with what you have where you are.” — George DeVault, Organic Gardening Magazine.
“Market gardening as described by Andy Lee and Pat Foreman is very rewarding to the soul, the soil, the environment, and the flow of capital.”— Jim Hightower, Austin, Texas
“The farmer of the future will be a gardener. BACKYARD MARKET GARDENING is their working guide.”—Gene Logsdon, author and organic farmer.
“BACKYARD MARKET GARDENING is written by a master farmer who has truly walked his talk." — Will Raap, President, Gardeners Supply Company.
