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Backyard Market Gardening (Good Earth)
- Paperback
- Author: Andy, W Lee, Patricia, L Foreman
- Publisher: Good Earth Publications, LLC
- Release Date: August 1992
- ISBN-10: 0962464805
- ISBN-13: 9780962464805
- List Price: $19.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryDiscover how easy and profitable it is to grow and sell vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs and small livestock from your own backyard market garden. Learn how to: • Earn top dollar, with minimum effort and maximum profits. |
Customer Reviews
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marketing for your farm
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this book is great because it tells you the importance of marketing to the success of your small farm. most organic farming books fail to mention or have a small chapter in the back about marketing. this one puts much more emphasis. 80% marketing, 20% farming.
What took us so long? Eat local!
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This book was written in the early 90's yet the message -- grow and eat REAL food from your own area is finally, albeit slowly, getting through to the masses. This was one of the most helpful farming books I've borrowed from the library in a long time. I came to Amazon to buy my own copy because there is so much in it which will make it a good reference for us. We have a small farm, summer farm stand and take part in local farmers markets. For me, the end of the book where the reasons for eating local, healthy food were presented seems esp helpful, as I plan to pass the info onto my customers. For my husband (the real farmer in this family) the nitty gritty of growing good food will be helpful. I've read a couple of Mr. Lee's other later books on chicken farming and they were good (albeit not as in depth and that first chicken tractor one, well I thought the format was a bit silly) but I feel this is MUCH better and a more useful tool for the small vegetable farmer. If you are not organic, you may tend to move closer to the organic idea after reading this book! Good marketing advice whether you are large or small, part time, full time or just dreaming of a farm.
Great Information for Market Gardeners
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We are just beginning to create an organic produce garden. The information in this book is a great help. The personal stories of how others managed this kind of project - give me hope that we too can create such a business.
Good book about marketing a mini-farm
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I really enjoyed this book. My only complaint, is that I wish the author had gone into the growing aspect a bit more. The book turned out to be more of a marketing book. Great book for a niche that needed to be addressed in a bit more detail, but not the book I thought I was getting. My two favorite books thus far on the subject of mini farming have been Mini Farming for Self Sufficiency and The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A Gardener's Supply Book).
For those of us with a hippy soul
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This is a good book to have if you decided to get back to nature, downsize your life, get with it or just make ends meet when food prices are going up, up, up. Just know that it takes a lot of work, especially if you are into organic. That said, this is a good start on making money with gardening when you don't have a acres of land. My lot is 1/3 of an acre and it is quite productive. This book helps you make the best of what you have. I recommend it. I didn't give it five stars because it doesn't have all that much that's new to me, but then again I read a lot.
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