Market Gardening 3.0

A workshop For Intermediate & Advanced Farmers

Mon, Oct 14 - Wed, Oct 16
8:30am - 5pm

Join JM Fortier, Dany Bouchard and the Market Gardener team at Ecolibrium Farms for an in-depth look into the best practices, tools, techniques, and strategies that can help serious growers take their market gardening project to the next level. In this 3-day workshop, the team will share the results of the last 5 years of applied research and development at Ferme des Quatre-Temps through a combination of slides, lecture, interactive dialogue, and hands-on field demonstrations.

The following topics will be covered:

• Keystone elements of the bio-intensive vegetable production model

  • Farm design for maximum efficiency

  • Creating systems for reduction of complexity

  • Tools and appropriate technology

• An in-depth look into key crops

• Nursery

  • Learn and apply techniques for tomato grafting

  • Healing process in a healing chamber

• Weeding & cultivation

  • Practice with weeding tools including mutineer, colinear hoes, wheelhoes, flextine weeder, wire weeder and more!

• Irrigation

• Season Extension

  • Build a low tunnel with the team

  • Discuss infrastructure options for season extension including greenhouses, caterpillar tunnels, low tunnels.

• Crop planning

  • An in depth look into tools and strategies to increase productivity

• Bed preparation

  • Start your beds from scratch

  • Raise beds with a rotary plow

  • Learn how to use a BCS with a power harrow

  • Try the tilther for a smooth finish

• Direct sales & marketing

Minimum requirement: 2+ years previous farming experience to enroll. If you have questions about this please email grow@ecolibriumfarms.com and we can talk you through it.

Includes daily lunch and end-of-workshop celebration.

PRICE: $700
Price below includes sales tax.