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Market gardening requires effort and attention. In the early days, everything was tended by hand all year round, so it was necessary to live and work on the site.

 


Market Gardener
by George Thabault
We've always had a garden, usually a small one, but this was our first large-scale attempt.

Organic market gardener Molly Bartlett of Silver Creek Farm in Ohio transplants good-size rhubarb divisions in early spring. They produce large, tempting stalks in May, which she harvests lightly without damaging the plants.

Working with customers, market gardeners, universities, manufacturers and suppliers throughout the world, we provide smart, garden-tested solutions for most every gardening challenge.

This farm has a market garden (which grows fruit and veg to be sold at the Sunday organic market, chickens, orchard, great nursery (open to the public for plant sales) and regular courses in gardening and sustainable living.

As a child, I got a vicarious thrill seeing my grandmother raise her axe to cleave open a monstrous 'New England Blue Hubbard' squash, grown on her three-hectare market garden farm in Churchill, Ontario.

Although these tests are aimed more at commercial producers, many market gardeners and homeowners with large corn patches can benefit from the results.

An insurance policy bought by a farmer or market gardener, especially in Saskatchewan, to compensate for crop damage in the event of heavy hail.
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