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  • From: Dan Conine <dconine@dotnet.com>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Beginning Market Gardeners
  • Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:07:49 -0600


From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Master Gardeners
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I'm glad to hear of any breakthroughs, Dan, it's encouraging. That
Beginning Market Gardener class is sorely needed in every corner of the
country, and it ought to be free. As you know market growing is a whole
different animal from backyard gardens. Let me mention a book I've reread a
couple times or more, Growing For Market (Rodale Press, naturally ... ) ed.
Roger Yepsen and editors of Organic Gardening, 1978.
Here's the link to the school: http://www.cias.wisc.edu/marketgrower.php

The book given with the course, "Sustainable Vegetable Production From Startup to Market"(http://www.acresusa.com/books/closeup.asp?action=search&prodid=1399&catid=&pcid=2 is very useful, written from a market grower standpoint. The class is well worth anyone's time and the cost. I even paid for my hired helper to go last year. The class is taught by a mix of university specialists (pests, soils, planning) and farmers from the midwest area. The only drawback I found was that the busy schedule doesn't provide enough networking time with other students and instructors.
The course materials are useful and I refer to them periodically (less so now than the first year).
The instructors were practical, diversified, and interesting.

Dan



  • [Livingontheland] Beginning Market Gardeners, Dan Conine, 10/31/2006

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