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  • From: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>
  • To: "Living on the Land" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Fw: [soilandhealth] Re: Men Pitted for the Business of Gardening
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:49:09 -0600

Of interest.
 
E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:15 PM
Subject: [soilandhealth] Re: Men Pitted for the Business of Gardening

I found it--or, rather, someone found it for me! In case anyone is
interested, here is the list :

1) Raise only high value crops.

2) Farm as close to your markets as possible.

3) Capture the lucrative early and late markets.

4) Weatherproof your farm as much as possible.

5) Farm the best land you can.

6) Have realistic goals and expectations.

7) Know what you're getting into.

8) Don't be afraid of lots of hard work.

9) Have enough money to do it right and make it work.

10) Don't get too big too quickly.

11) Concentrate on freshness and quality.

12) Watch the markets and catch the highest prices.

On Jan 7, 2008 11:24 AM, Krystle Chung <learning@selfmadefarmer.com> wrote:

> I'm currently reading "Gardening for Profit" by Peter Henderson. I have
> the 1882 version from the soil and health library (thanks, Steve!).
> Supposedly some versions of this book have a list in the beginning of 11
> qualities needed for a person to be successful in market gardening, but my
> version doesn't have such a list. The version available through Google books
> doesn't have it, either. I was just curious if anyone on this list has a
> version of this book that does have the list...if so, would you be so kind
> as to share it? (I mean the list, not the book!) Thanks in advance!
>
> Krystle
> http://selfmadefarmer.wordpress.com/
>

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