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Most recomended books for the market garden

Currently one of the few reference guides that describe biopesticides, where they come from and what effects they have, along with diseases and insect pests.

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Solviva - Sustainable Solar-Dynamic Bio-Benign Design: A little-known but very interesting book that discuss the idea of house-integrated salad farming operation. Filled with great ideas

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Sharing the Harvest, Revised and Expanded by Elizabeth Henderson, Robyn Van En - Chelsea Green A very comprehensive look at the CSA model. Farmers will find lots of useful advice on structuring and organizing a CSA share program.

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The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Heal... One of the better books out there about biocontrol of insect pests and diseases.

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Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green PhilosophyFukuoka’s works are seminal texts for those interested in permaculture. The author’s approach is quite radical .

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Whole-Farm Planning, Ecological Imperatives, Personal Values and Economics This book draws very much on the theory of holistic management, adapting it to the context of diversified market farming. Useful for understanding the importance of setting financial objectives (and non-financial objective) at the very beginning of crop planning.

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Sepp Holzer's Permaculture by Sepp Holzer - Sepp Holzer is a living legend in permaculture circles. The ideas that he proposes are based on his own experience, which is, alas, rare among those who write about permaculture.

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The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins - Chelsea Green This book explains how to organize our communities for the end of cheap oil. It focuses not on the catastrophe, but instead on positive changes we must make at the local level. A must-read.

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Diseases and pests of vegetable crops in Canada: An illustrated compendium: Ronald J. Howard: The best reference book for identifying insect pests and crop diseases in Canada.

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How to Grow More Vegetables... This celebrated work is well worth the read even thought much emphasis is places on double-digging, which is not essential in my view

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The Dirty Life Essex Farm is one of the most interesting farm I have visited. In this book, the author, who co-owns the business, recounts the beginnings of the farm’s CSA project. It provides a good description of the harsh reality of the first years of establishing a farm along with some lessons that can be drawn, and the payoff after many years of hard dirty work.

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Les micro-organismes efficaces au quotidien : Au service de la terre, des animaux et des hommes: This is not the best book on gardening, but it is one of the few currently available that give recommended doses of effective micro-organisms (EM) in the garden, a topic that interests me. In French

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Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres. New Society Publishers, 2013. A reference book like Dawling’s was long in the waiting. Intended towards serious growers, it gives a comprehensive overview of growing techniques and practices for almost every vegetables. A good addition to any market gardener’s library

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Matson, Tim. Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration. Countryman Press; 3 edition 2012. This guide contains all the considerations and steps involved in creating a lake or pond to serve as an ecological habitat. This book is well-written and penned by a foremost authority on the topic

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Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements: Bill Mollison, David Holmgren, Earle Barnhart: This book is a veritable encyclopedia of permaculture. Even though the ideas presented are more relevant for a subtropical climate, the concepts are universal.

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Manuel Pratique de La Culture Maraichere de Paris: Amazon.fr: J. G. Moreau: An extraordinary reference document detailing the growing practices of French market gardener of the 19th century. Reading about their methods makes you realise how these growers were amazingly productive. Out of print, but available through Abebooks.com. In French

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Living the good Life how to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World: Helen and Scott Nearing: This book is an American back-to-the-land classic. It recounts the adventure of an eminent communist professor and his young theosophist wife, who moved out into the country in the 1930s to lead a self-sufficient life. Their life philosophy, presented in the context of the era, makes for a unique read.

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SUSTAINIST DESIGN GUIDE. How sharing, localism, connectedness and proportionality are creating a new agenda for social design | Michiel Schw... This book doesn’t talk about farming nor vegetable growing, but it taps into other skills set that are vital for successful market gardening.

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Tickell, Joshua. From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank: The Complete Guide to Using Vegetable Oil as an Alternative Fuel. For 10 years now, we have been powering our vehicles with recycled vegetable oil. The author covers the topic thoroughly in this book and shows the reader how to convert a diesel vehicle, step by step.

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Eco-Farm: An Acres U.S.A. PrimerThis was written by the founder of Acres U.S.A., one of the first organizations to make the case for an ecological approach to agriculture from a scientific perspective. While it is not an easy read, it does allow the reader to deepen his or her understanding of soil with respect to fertilization.

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The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook by Richard Wiswall - Chelsea Green Written by a veteran grower this book discusses the financial aspect of running a CSA vegetable farm. The chapter on planning for retirement is especially interesting.

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Will Allen's Good Food Revolution: Will Allen is the founder of Growing Power an innovative urban farm located in downtown Milwaukee. This book tells his story.

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Fearless Farm Finances: Farm Financial Management Demystified: Chris Blanchard, Paul Dietmann, Craig Chase: This book will help you understand basic financial management on your farm -- how to collect and use numbers in ways that will give you real information that is helpful in making farm decisions.

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Walking to Spring by Alison and Paul Wiediger - Market farmers from Kentucky, the Wiedigers share much of their learned experience in this self-published guide. A good primer for growing in hoophouses even dow written for warmer climates than that of the Northeast.

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Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres: Pam Dawling: 9780865717169: Amazon.com: Books

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