Sustainable Market Farming, Second Edition: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres.
by Pam Dawling
Publication Date: April 15, 2025.
$69.99 paperback, $45.50 digital
Sustainable Market Farming is the comprehensive reference for serious growers. Fully revised and updated, this new edition distills over 30 years of organic vegetable production experience into a complete practical guide covering everything from planning to harvest, including in-depth profiles of a full range of crops.
ISBN: 9781774060018
Page Count: 640, Dimensions: 8 × 9 × 1.4 in, Images: 250 color images, Weight: 2.12 Pounds
The second edition of Sustainable Market Farming, release April 15, 2025
The complete year-round guide to organic vegetable production for market gardeners and small-scale farmers – now fully revised and updated
Sustainable Market Farming is the comprehensive, go-to reference for serious growers in every climate zone. Extensively revised and updated, this brand new, fully illustrated edition is packed with detailed information on everything from planning to harvest, and features in-depth profiles of a full range of crops.
Informed by the author’s experience leading decades of intensive year-round organic vegetable production on a few acres to feed a community of 100 people, this complete practical guide includes:
- The most current farm-specific planning and organizational business skills to ensure a profitable, successful, smooth-running, professional enterprise
- Cutting-edge information describing new and efficient techniques, strategies for season extension, approaches for integrated pest, disease, and weed management, and preferred climate-smart, disease-resistant varieties to add to your repertoire
- Updated guidelines for improving and maintaining soil quality and finding resilient, regenerative solutions to align farming practices with new environmental challenges
- Precise growing guides for a cornucopia of vegetables, addressing selection of varieties, soil, water, and fertility requirements, sowing, cultivation, crop rotation, succession planting, common pests and diseases, harvest, storage, and more.
Whether you are a beginning grower, an aspiring market gardener, or an established enterprise seeking to take your operation to the next level, Sustainable Market Farming is the book you will find yourself returning to again and again throughout a long farming career. An exciting, timely, and invaluable resource.
A signed copy of Sustainable Market Farming, Second Edition in paperback is available for $69.99 direct from the author in person at sustainable agriculture events she is attending, or via this website or by mail order for an additional $7.00 shipping (mainland USA only). Use the “Buy Now” button or write to: Sustainable Market Farming, Twin Oaks Community, 138 Twin Oaks Road, Louisa, Virginia 23093.
Sustainable Market Farming is also available in print from booksellers, or from New Society Publishers as a paperback as an e-book for $45.50. Click here to buy Sustainable Market Farming, Second Edition, from New Society in paperback or digital format. I get a small fee for books bought through this link.
The Year-Round Hoophouse: Polytunnels for All Seasons and All Climates
by Pam Dawling Publication Date: October 17, 2016. $34.99, ebook $22.75
Paperback – 320 pages, 10 Inches × 8 Inches (w × h), Weight: 750 Grams
Publisher: New Society Publishers ISBN: 9780865718630
Design and build a hoophouse or polytunnel, and grow abundant produce year-round in any climate.
Growing in hoophouses – also known as high tunnels or polytunnels – reduces the impact of an increasingly unpredictable climate on crops, mitigates soil erosion, extends the growing season and keeps leafy greens alive through the winter, and enables growers to supply more regional food needs.
The Year-Round Hoophouse is a comprehensive guide to designing and building a hoophouse and making a success of growing abundant, delicious fresh produce all year, whatever your climate and land size. Chapters include:
- Hoophouse siting, size, style, frame construction, and tools
- Bed layout, soil, crop rotations, and extensive coverage of various crops for all seasons
- Organic solutions to pests and diseases
- Disaster preparation
- Tested resources for each chapter.
The Year-Round Hoophouse is ideal for farmers who wish to move into protected growing, as well as beginning farmers in rural and urban spaces. It is an essential reference resource for professors and students of courses in sustainable agriculture, as well as interns and apprentices learning on the job.
A signed copy of The Year-Round Hoophouse in paperback is available for $34.99 direct from the author in person at sustainable agriculture events she is attending, or via this website or by mail order for an additional $7.00 shipping (mainland USA only). Use the “Buy Now” button or write to: Sustainable Market Farming, Twin Oaks Community, 138 Twin Oaks Road, Louisa, Virginia 23093.
The Year-Round Hoophouse is also available in print from booksellers, and in print for $34.99 or as an web pdf e-book for $22.75 from from New Society Publishers. Click here to buy The Year-Round Hoophouse from New Society in paperback or digital format. I get a small fee for books bought through this link.