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...
Utilizing a greenhouse is important in market farming because we live in an age of supermarket convenience where customers have come to expect the availability of out of season produce. For example, the grocery store sells tomatoes in April and peas in October. In...
The purpose of a hoophouse is for season extension. When your growing season is short, such as in Canada, a market gardener must take every means possible to produce as much as possible in the little time we have to do it. One of our jobs as a market farmer is to find...
Devising a plan helps you stay organized and on track. A plan aids in keeping you focused on the end goal in mind. It’s way too easy to get sidetracked when there are sooo many things to do. There is a never-ending ‘to-do’ list that goes along with starting a market...
So, you’re starting a market garden and you want to know what the most profitable crops are to grow. I hear ya, you want to be able to make a living from selling your vegetables, so do we! For our first year of growing vegetables for our market garden, we are...
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