Market Farming Success, Revised and Expanded Edition

The Business of Growing and Selling Local Food Lynn Byczynski $29.95 Paperback 8 x 10 288 pages ISBN 9781603583862 Pub Date: October 15, 2013

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Market farmers run the gamut from teenagers to people in their 80s. They come from all socioeconomic backgrounds and from every state in the nation. . . . Whatever your background, wherever you are located, rest assured that you can be a market farmer. Lynn Byczynski, from the Introduction

Market Farming Success offers an insiders guide to market gardening and farming for those in the business of growing and selling food, flowers, herbs, or plants. Condensing decades of growing experience from every part of the United States and Canada, Lynn Byczynskieditor of Growing for Marketidentifies key areas that usually trip up beginners and shows growers how to avoid common obstacles. This book differentiates between market gardens, market farms, and vegetable farms, and offers a concise and useful overview of how to find land, select and grow crops, acquire appropriate equipment according to scale, market produce, and tackle recordkeeping, insurance, and other business matters. Focusing on factors that are common to market gardeners everywhere, Byczynski offers professional advice that includes: How much you will need to spend to start a market farming business; How much you can expect to earn; Which crops bring in the most moneyand whether or not you should grow them; Essential tools and equipment youll need; The best places to sell your products; How to keep records to maximize profits and minimize taxes; A discussion of organic practices, techniques, and certification; and, Tricks of the trade that will make you more efficient in the greenhouse, field, and market. This new Chelsea Green edition of a 2006 classic is greatly updated and expanded, and includes full-color photos, charts, and graphs, plus many inspiring and instructive profiles of successful market farming pioneers. This book will help the aspiring or beginning farmer advance quickly and confidently through the inevitable learning curve of starting a new business.
Lynn Byczynski is the editor and publisher of Growing for Market, a monthly magazine for market gardeners and farmers published since 1992. She is the author of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Growers Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers (Chelsea Green, 2007), and The Hoophouse Handbook. She is the owner of Wild Onion Farm in Lawrence, Kansas.

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