Harvest is one of the incredible highlights of the growing season. It's when all of your hard work, dedication, and attention to detail gets translated into a tangible, finished product. Although my experience thus far has been strictly a backyard garden harvest,...
Managing pests and diseases is crucial to the success of your market gardening operation. No one wants to buy radishes with wormholes or tomatoes with black rings around them, no matter how organic they are. In this article, we will be taking a look at J.M. Fortier’s...
After transplanting your seedlings into the garden, the hard work is over right? You can breathe a sigh of relief? Well, maybe for a second, enjoy the fruits of your labour and all. But after that brief moment of joy, it’s time to start thinking about weeds,...
Achieving more than one revenue stream should be your goal as a market gardener newbie. In my last article, I talked about selling your vegetables at the farmer’s market. Here, I talk about CSA programs. This article is all about selling your veggies to chefs and...
If you’re just starting out as a market gardener, selling your produce at a farmer’s market should be high on your list of viable market streams. I know for us, as first-year market gardeners, our number one market stream is going to be selling at our local farmer’s...
I don’t know about you, but starting to prepare our market garden plot in the spring of the same year that we want to be in production was NOT our initial plan. We wanted to be ahead of the game and start in the fall of 2020. Well, that didn’t happen and it’s January...
I’m going to be honest here, before I really started looking into organic certification fairly recently, I had not heard of the Real Organic Project. I came across the organization when I was looking at different types of organic certification for vegetable farmers....
Transferring your transplants from the seedling room to the nursery is your next step for getting an early start this spring. To recap from my last article, a seedling room is ideal for starting a small amount of indoor production, but once a certain number of...
It’s January and spring is right around the corner! Time to get your seed orders in and start thinking about how you’re going to grow the best transplants this year. This is our first year as market farmers, and we intend to transplant more than we direct seed, so we...
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