Direct Market Farming For The Homestead
Increase The Efficiency and Profitability Of Your CSA Mixed Vegetable Garden
Are you looking to start market farming on your homestead? In this book we draw from our formalized training in market farming and CSA farmshare offerings to help guide you to efficiency and profitability at a manageable scale. We documented many visits to production farms to use as inspiration in farm design. All of the resources are now available in this ebook to help self-guide the design of a market farming venture.
182 pages of detailed information, photos and inspiration from many successful farms of different scales. The aim of this book is to streamline the design of organizational systems and operation strategies for direct market farming that are unique to your land.
Photos include some sample pages from the book. Chapter Description is below.
Increase The Efficiency and Profitability Of Your CSA Mixed Vegetable Garden
Are you looking to start market farming on your homestead? In this book we draw from our formalized training in market farming and CSA farmshare offerings to help guide you to efficiency and profitability at a manageable scale. We documented many visits to production farms to use as inspiration in farm design. All of the resources are now available in this ebook to help self-guide the design of a market farming venture.
182 pages of detailed information, photos and inspiration from many successful farms of different scales. The aim of this book is to streamline the design of organizational systems and operation strategies for direct market farming that are unique to your land.
Photos include some sample pages from the book. Chapter Description is below.
Increase The Efficiency and Profitability Of Your CSA Mixed Vegetable Garden
Are you looking to start market farming on your homestead? In this book we draw from our formalized training in market farming and CSA farmshare offerings to help guide you to efficiency and profitability at a manageable scale. We documented many visits to production farms to use as inspiration in farm design. All of the resources are now available in this ebook to help self-guide the design of a market farming venture.
182 pages of detailed information, photos and inspiration from many successful farms of different scales. The aim of this book is to streamline the design of organizational systems and operation strategies for direct market farming that are unique to your land.
Photos include some sample pages from the book. Chapter Description is below.
DIRECT MARKET FARMING FOR THE HOMESTEAD
Chapter Overview
Chapter 1:Whole Farm Planning
Phase 1: Gathering Information
Getting to Know the Soil
On Site Water
On Site Structures
Other Considerations
Biodiversity Inventory and Mapping
Historical Considerations
Market Research
Phase 2: Vision Development and Goal Articulation
Working with the land to develop your vision
Measurable goals based on information gathered
Chapter 2: Understanding And Creating Crop Plans
Review goals, equipment and space to determine production capacity
Organize information into one master plan
Use pivot tables to create specific production plans from the master that will aid our ability to create concise weekly plans during the season
Chapter 3: Overview Of The CSA: Month By Month Preparations And Principles
Includes week by week photos of the CSA offering
Chapter 4: Planning And Making Your Fields
Chapter 5: Tools And Equipment
Review equipment for various scales
Lean recommendations and critical equipment
Chapter 6: Greenhouses: Recommendations, Examples And Lean Designs
Choose the best site and size for your greenhouse
Explore heating and ventilation
Optimize your greenhouse layout for efficient workflow
Building materials and seeding tools
Chapter 7: Efficient Wash Pack Stations
Analyze efficiencies and inefficiencies of successful farms of multiple scales
Design your wash and pack stations using the principles from successful farms
Chapter 8: Storage
Examples of clever ways to cool produce from farms of different scales
Basic produce storage temperature template
Chapter 9: Increasing Efficiency: Principles And Examples In Every Phase Of The Farm
This chapter covers increasing efficiency in each of the areas below:
Developing the Weekly Plan Pre-Harvest
Greenhouse Seeding
Performing Primary Tillage
Transplanting Out
Pest Management
Weed Management
Developing the Weekly Plan during Harvest
Harvesting
Product Distribution
BONUS ITEMS
Scalable CSA crop plans
Field plan & Crop rotations
Greenhouse plan
Seed order
Whole Farm Planning Workbook
Workbook follows Chapter 1 and will help
organize the information you gather into one space.
