Help FarmStart Translate French How-To Guide for Small-Scale Market Farmers
Posted: December 13, 2012
Categories: Digital Media (videos, infographics, digital stories) / Food in the News / News from Sustain Ontario
FarmStart has come across a new impressive how-to guide to market gardening, Le jardinier-maraîcher, but they need support to fund the book’s translation to expand its potential reach. Farmstart is running their crowdfunding campaign for the translation on IndieGoGo – visit the Le jardinier-maraîcher translation campaign page to learn more about the project and incentives. The book explains in great detail the different horticultural techniques, tools and know-how that author Jean-Martin Fortier has developed while running a successful and profitable vegetable operation on less than 1.5 acres of land. Watch the video below to learn more about Fortier’s farm, les Jardins de la Grelinette.
From the campaign page:
Why Translate This Book?
In English, only one other book has discussed this idea of intensive market gardening in such depth. That book is The New Organic Grower (Chelsea Green, 1995) written by Eliot Coleman. Le jardinier-maraîcher is very much influenced by Coleman’s book. Both describe intensive market gardening techniques and are written by a farmer for farmers. However, organic farming has evolved tremendously in the last 15 years, especially with the development of CSAs (Community Shared Agriculture), and Le jardinier-maraîcher gives a more precise idea of how to run your CSA profitably while including many new and important techniques with regards to pest control and organic fertilisation to name of few. The book also provides a more complete and accurate depiction of what can be done on a few acres.
Read more on the campaign page.