Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers

by Frédéric Thériault, Daniel Brisebois

This book is a must read for vegetable growers of all scales – organic or not. It’s not easy to make a living growing and selling vegetables. This book gives you a field-tested eleven-step planning approach that will take some of the chaos out of your business and help you move towards profitability. In steps one and two, you’ll learn how to set realistic financial goals and figure out how to meet them through your marketing outlets. In steps three to eight, you will learn how to develop an actual crop plan. In step nine, you’ll learn how to implement your crop plan and record what actually happens in the field. In steps ten and eleven, you will analyze how your crop plan fared and start planning for next year. The book is interspersed with real world examples of vegetable operations across Canada which showcase the importance of crop planning. It also contains a wealth of information in the form of vegetable reference charts, which can be modified for use in your own crop plan

Genres: Gardening, Agriculture, Nonfiction

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Heather Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. This book is going to be on the shelf of every market farmer and serious gardener in North America. Packed with useful information culled from all the dog-eared books on my shelf: The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, Northeast Cover Crop Handbook, and others. All in short, practical bursts, with the very best ideas for crop management that I have seen anywhere. Instant classic. The "For Further Reading" section is indispensable, too.

[Chris Kosin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very practical and technical for small market gardeners