The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-scale Organic Farming
- ISBN-10
- 0865717656
- ISBN-13
- 9780865717657
- Category
- Technology & Engineering
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-04
- Publisher
- New Society Publishers
- Authors
- Jean-Martin Fortier, Marie Bilodeau
Description
Grow better not bigger with proven low-tech, human-scale, biointensive farming methods
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- 2014-03-01
- 392 pages
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