Get Your Hands On The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer: The Ultimate Guide To Producing High-Quality Herbs On A Market Scale Constructed By Jeff Carpenter Published As EPub

guide to growing herbs on a small comercial scale using organic methods, Filled with beautiful pictures and step by step descriptions of how the author farms herbs from seed to bag, I read this right after "The NoTill Organic Vegetable Farm" and I did prefer the farming howtos in that book, but if you're looking for a book on herbs specifically this is the way to go.
The book is broken down into two parts, The first part gives you an overview on how to start and what you need to start a farm and run it, Teaches you about the different equipment used and types of building needed, I am not looking to strat a farm but it gives me ideas for smaller tools and ways to improve my own personal gardens, The second part tells you about the types of herbs and plants they plant although they are giving you ideas on a larger plan you can easily adapt it to small gardens and it teaches you what parts of the plants are used and how to dry them and prepare them.
One never really finishes reading this book, It is so full of wonderful information and the generosity of the authors let you know they are encouraging you to farm herbs!! Unparalleled in it's detail of production herb
farming techniques Written by people who love what they do.
This is an exceptional manual, Every part of the growing amp harvesting process is thoroughly explored, It is a bit expensive but it is worth every penny! 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 youre trying to farm medicinal plants, culinary herbs, or atrisk native herbs exclusively or simply add herbal crops to what youre already growing, successful smallscale herb farmers Jeff and Melanie Carpenter will guide you through the entire processfrom cultivation to creating valueadded 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, including:

Size and scale considerations
Layout and design of the farm and facilities
Growing and cultivation information, including types of tools
Field and bed prep
Plant propagation
Weed control, and pests and diseases
Harvesting, as well as wild harvesting and the concept of geoauthentic botanicals
Postharvest processing and,
Valueadded products and marketing.


The authors also provide fifty detailed plant profiles, going deeper into the herbs every farmer should consider growing, In an easytounderstand, 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 its more important to produce these herbs domestically,

The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer makes a convincing case that producing organic medicinal herbs can be a viable, profitable, farming enterprise, The Carpenters also make the case for incorporating medicinal herbs into existing operations, as it can help increase revenue in the form of valueadded products, not to mention improve the ecological health of farmland by encouraging biodiversity as a path toward greater soil health.
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