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The revised edition of The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer.
How to Produce High-Quality Herbs on a Market Scale
by Melanie Carpenter, Jeff Carpenter
$39.95 with free shipping within the continental US.
Release Date: September 7, 2023
In the first edition of The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer,authors Jeff and Melanie Carpenter presented a comprehensive seed-to-bottle guide for aspiring and experienced growers alike, from basic business considerations to planting and propagation to creating value-added products. Now they’re back with a revised and updated edition, sharing the lessons they’ve learned throughout their twenty-five years of operating a medicinal herb farm that prizes quality over quantity.
The Carpenters offer their insights and tips on every aspect of herb farming, including:
Size and scale considerations
The herbal marketplace and choosing which herbs to grow
Field and bed preparation and planting, including building soil fertility
Plant-positive weed, pest, and disease control
Harvest and post-harvest processing, including scalable dryer construction
Value-added products and marketing
A new chapter on growing cannabis
And much more!
The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer is a one-of-a-kind resource, complete with detailed profiles of 50 medicinal herbs and over 200 color photographs. Whether you’re looking to grow an herb farm from the ground up, incorporate medicinal plants on an existing farm, or add tools to your belt as a seasoned grower, you’ll find the information you need in this book.
