Market Farming Success: The Business of Growing and Selling Local Food, 2nd Editon

“We’ve used the first edition of Market Farming Success in our beginning farmer program since 2007. My own writing focuses on the planning and execution of crop production: the equally important marketing side is here covered by an extremely knowledgeable mentor.”--Pam Dawling, author of Sustainable Market Farming“With over 20 years of market gardening experience and teaching others the ins and outs of it via her wonderful publication, Growing for Market, Lynn Byczynski has created an up-to-date guidebook for direct-market farmers. This new edition contains additional information that makes it an even greater asset to those exploring and starting a market farm.”--Adrian Card, Colorado State University Extension
It focuses on the factors that are common to market gardeners everywhere and offers professional advice that includes: •    How much you'll need to spend to start a market farming business; •    How much you can expect to earn; •    Which crops bring in the most moneyand whether you should grow them; •    The essential tools and equipment you will need; •    The best places to sell your products; •    How to keep records to maximize profits and minimize taxes; •    Tricks of the trade that will make you more efficient in the greenhouse, field, and market. This new Chelsea Green edition of a 2006 classic is greatly updated and expanded, and includes full-color photos, charts, and graphs, plus many inspiring and instructive profiles of successful market-far

Lynn Byczynski is publisher and editor of a monthly news letter Growing for Market. For more information, please visit the website of Growing for Market at growingformarket. She also operates Wild Onion Farm in Lawrence, Kansas, where she resides with her husband and two children

If you're looking to grow food to sell, start here! This book doesn't really cover any topic in extreme detail, but enough to make you realize there's more to it than you thought.Here's a couple of things I learned:1. Instead of trying to just blindly sell all that you can and hope you make a profit, figure out how much profit you (realistically!) want to make. So if you need to make $10,000 profit, realize that you'll need to sell about twice that to cover your costs so you need to bring in $20,000. Then, determine how many lbs of tomatoes, or heads of lettuce, e. "If you are intersted in learning the Market Farming business, this book is for you." according to Marilyn Ison. Lynn Byczynski is one of the best authors for writing about the business of Market Farming. She and her family have been market farming for many years with great success. Lynn was the original owner of the monthly publication, "Growing For Market," which was a great help for me when I was market farming. MARKET FARMING SUCCESS is a MUST HAVE for anyone in market farming or market gardening for profit. Lynn explains how you can make your gardens or farm successful and profitable. Do yourself a favor and buy the bo. Essential Resource Brenda Sexton This book covers all the basics required for a small scale farm. If space does not allow detail on any topic, the author provides ample resources that WILL provide details. An absolute essential read for anyone considering starting a market vegetable, fruit, berry or flower farm. The goal of this writer is to make more startups successful by sharing the good and bad experiences of many farmers and the ideas and solutions those farmers have evolved.A must read.