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>The book “The Market Gardener” by Jean-Martin Fortier is a good resource about those topics. It is? He doesn't do no-till, doesn't do regenerative ag or perm
by asdkjh345fd 7y ago
>The book “The Market Gardener” by Jean-Martin Fortier is a good resource about those topics.
It is? He doesn't do no-till, doesn't do regenerative ag or permaculture. He just grows lettuce conventionally and sells it at high prices to a couple of hipster restaurants in Montreal. I never read the book, but it seems weird he would advocate stuff he won't actually do himself.
- mastazi 7y agoIf by > He doesn't do no-till you mean he uses a BCS power harrow, then your definition of tillage is much broader than mine, which is absolutely fine. To me, permaculture is not an ideal but a business opportunity, so I tend to focus on the commercially viable ways of practicing it.
- asdkjh345fd 7y agoIt isn't my definition, it is the definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillage I'm not sure what you mean about ideals vs business opportunities. It isn't a question of making money or of practicality vs ideals or something, he simply isn't doing any of the three things you listed. As far as I can tell, he has never mentioned any of the three things you listed. His "farm" is even named after a tillage implement which he promotes constantly and is possibly most well-known for. He's a conventional organic gardener, he has no soil, he has captured no carbon, he has no plan for building soil or capturing carbon, so there's nothing regenerative about it. He imports all his fertilizer, so it isn't permaculture. He plows, broadforks and then harrows multiple times a year, so he's not even minimal tillage much less no-till.