Название: The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer: The Ultimate Guide to Producing High-Quality Herbs on a Market ScaleАвтор: Jeff Carpenter, Melanie Carpenter
Издательство: Chelsea Green Publishing
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 37 Мб
Язык: английский / English
A new approach to growing local medicine, including information on geo-authenticity, wildcrafting, and developing a good business plan. Both a business guide and a farming manual, The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer will teach readers how to successfully grow and market organic medicinal Western herbs. Whether you’re trying to farm medicinal plants, culinary herbs, or at-risk native herbs exclusively or simply add herbal crops to what you’re already growing, successful small-scale herb farmers Jeff and Melanie Carpenter will guide you through the entire process―from cultivation to creating value-added products.
Using their Zack Woods Herb Farm in Vermont as a backdrop, the Carpenters cover all the basic practical information farmers need to know to get an organic herb farm up and running. In an easy-to-understand, practical, and comprehensive manner, readers will learn how to focus on quality over quantity, and keep costs down by innovating with existing equipment, rather than expensive technology. Market farmers who have never before considered growing medicinal herbs will learn why it’s more important to produce these herbs domestically.