Farms: Jean-Martin Fortier, The Market Gardener: Six Figure Farming (Part 3 of 5)
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Join Jean-Martin Fortier (JM), author of award-winning book "The Market Gardener", as he explains how he generates over $100,000 in sales annually from 1 1/2 acres of bio-intensively managed vegetables on his farm in Quebec. JM has inspired thousands of readers worldwide to reimagine human-scale food systems. His message is one of empowerment in order to educate, encourage and inspire people into pursuing a farming career and lifestyle. Part three of a five-part series recorded at the 33rd annual NOFA-VT Winter Conference on February 16, 2015.
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So a Harrow is kind of like a tilther but with a garden tractor?
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Soil aggregates are aggregated by the "microbes,....that feed the fungi,...that feed the nematodes that feed the......without the 'living critters' in the soil.....there is NO soil....there's only "dirt".
Dirt is dead...soil is living......plants feed the "critters"...and conversely, the critters fix nitrogen and minerals for the plants to "take up" and make "food". That's basically it....now...THE WORK. -
Making your own compost is indeed tricky part will try to start my own pile this year and see how it goes, I'm using horse manure this year and already have anew batch delivered which will be hot composted hopefully there will be less weeds in it. Great to see how Jean is preparing the beds. This whole presentation is amazing !
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If you are wondering about composting. I'm pretty sure I see the farmers here in Northern Holland do it all the time. They just take manure and mix it with hay, can't tell you wet or dry, they tightly seal it under a tarp and place heavy tires over the sides. It always stays warm and doesn't wash away. I think they do it like that because it seems to be a construct and forget thing. This is then used once a year to reinvigorate the grazing lands.
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Carbonic acid strips down rocks of their minerals. Carbonic acid comes from water and carbon in the soil. Pretty crazy when you look at how well the world was designed to work. From what I gather we just complicates things, the more we try to use our designs we work harder. The more we look at the natural designs of things the less we do.
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Thank you for posting this. An amazing companion to the book.