Direct Market Farming For The Homestead

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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.

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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.

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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.