Jean-Martin Fortier, The Market Gardener: Six Figure Farming (Part 1 of 5)

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Jean-Martin Fortier, The Market Gardener: Six Figure Farming (Part 1 of 5)

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Join Jean-Martin Fortier (JM), author of award-winning book "The Market Gardener", as he explains how he generates over $100,000 in sales annually from 1 1/2 acres of bio-intensively managed vegetables on his farm in Quebec. JM has inspired thousands of readers worldwide to reimagine human-scale food systems. His message is one of empowerment in order to educate, encourage and inspire people into pursuing a farming career and lifestyle. Part one of a five-part series recorded at the 33rd annual NOFA-VT Winter Conference on February 16, 2015.

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@ciannalynnmarie 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing! My partner and i wanna make a difference in providing good food for our communites. We want to be self sufficient and be able to take care of our own family. We are on our way to try farming this year. We appreciate so much your content and this open information.

@johnpaulsmajda 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you for capturing good sound quality.

@jdearr1 5 жыл бұрын

Regarding the "Asian squat," I can suggest that any morning exercise system already a part of one's daily routine should easily accommodate a painless squatting and stretching aspect that will rapidly make squatting more comfortable. After time, as JM says, you can do it longer, and eventually all day. I'm 60 and it makes me feel great when I do it, whether in vegetable rows or trimming willow stumps at ground level, or some other task that can keep me in one spot without moving or rising 15 minutes or more without discomfort, numbness, or weakness. My knees are bad, too, but squatting is comfortable, though it took time and daily discipline.

@isaiahrhys1711 3 жыл бұрын

InstaBlaster.

@jigary 8 жыл бұрын

thank you TheNOFAVT for posting this and adding the audience questions as a subtitle.

@mccainmcmurray4202 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! So grateful this is available for free. Thank you!

@sinsinnomore5555 Жыл бұрын

As a Sinixt, who's ancestors lived 10k++ years in _Canada,_ we lived in pit houses built of earth, lined in cedars, stocked with food and there was no mold anywhere.

@classicrocklover5615 6 ай бұрын

Would the natural scent of cedar kill or prevent the growth of mold or fungus?

@deramos29 8 жыл бұрын

sooooo excited to see this! I just bought your book and now I get to hear you speak! :)

@pressedearth5133 8 жыл бұрын

Great Content. I have Jean-Martins book. This video really fleshes it out. Doing all of the grading and drainage systems on the outset makes too much sense. Thanks for sharing this information so freely.

@christian9506 7 жыл бұрын

This was super cool. Thank you for sharing. Merci!

@rosewani6977 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for opening my horizon.

@jgilorganic7966 8 жыл бұрын

These videos are great! Thanks for sharing. I am getting more interested in farming lately. I think growing food is way better than organic landscaping!

@jameshamilton9140 7 жыл бұрын

I've had a bad back injury, and what JM says about the crouching position is very important. One additional point, try to crouch with your heels still in contract with the ground. This is ideal, although very difficult for many people with years of bad posture/reduced flexibility.

@jameshamilton9140 7 жыл бұрын

Asians can usually do it because, even in a rich country like Japan, at school they still use the old fashioned hole-in-the-floor style toilets. If you've lost the ability to do it, just keep trying and you'll soon regain the required level of flexibility, and it really benefits your lumbar region.

@landoutdoors860 7 жыл бұрын

I actually refer to it as the "Asian squat" (not my own term, just one I heard) once you figure the balance out, it's really a lot more comfortable.

@lonnypearson552 6 жыл бұрын

James Hamilton fsttfxxxb b. be r/ttdeekou g c xxbhh

@hannahinhawaii9607 7 жыл бұрын

Best hat ever, Jean-Martin!

@RafsKitchenGardenChannel 8 жыл бұрын

Great presentation. Thanks for sharing this !

@truehealthnow 5 жыл бұрын

In business salaries are expenses, not profit. In this operation once you take out two salaries working full time on the farm you are left with a much smaller real profit ... and even smaller after taxes.

@frankfromupstateny3796 8 жыл бұрын

Treat anything like a business....it becomes a business.

@redwoodolive 4 жыл бұрын

I would say that Permaculture is interested in perennial crops therefore trying to raise the ground water table where as annual crops are not going to have that extensive root system over years therefore need to have a different drainage approach

@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork 6 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing!

@alcexis 5 жыл бұрын

Damn! I should have ditched the girl and the bike and come and volunteer on your farm instead...

@Leistaco 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@ronmiller7916 6 жыл бұрын

45% profit margin? Are there any feed, state, local tax breaks? If so, are they included in the margin you're showing? Interesting vid series!

@KeenAcres 7 жыл бұрын

Very helpful, Thank you very much, I am in the design process step.

@WolvesinFrance 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Lewis, how are things going 3yrs later?

@MrsMamaBear27 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you :) Amazing vides!

@jeremiah1059 2 жыл бұрын

For being a native French speaker, Jean-Martin speaks English nearly flawlessly.

@chiaridude9098 Жыл бұрын

😅 43% of people are bilingual.

@jeremiah1059 Жыл бұрын

@Chiari Dude Why is that funny?

@ILikeTurtlesJah 8 жыл бұрын

I got a broad fork but I need a loan after all I learned from you.. The struggle is real.

@buffalo_chips9538 6 жыл бұрын

start small

@FBall-im8ui 3 жыл бұрын

Bravo jeune homme!

@darrenwise8528 3 жыл бұрын

JM talked about crop rotations based on whole sections of multiple beds. Is it possible to achieve the same thing by planting multiple families of crops in the same section and rotating within that section?

@dbanks128 3 жыл бұрын

Is this book a good place to start for someone who is totally new to gardening?

@garrettgagliardi2947 3 жыл бұрын

The book is more about making your garden as efficient and profitable as possible. Definitely get it but it's not gardening 101

@dbanks128 3 жыл бұрын

@@garrettgagliardi2947 any recommendations for a beginner? Books, online courses?

@garrettgagliardi2947 3 жыл бұрын

@@dbanks128 Pretty much any gardening youtube channel is useful. Charles Dowding is good

@dbanks128 3 жыл бұрын

@@garrettgagliardi2947 thanks

@ChanceChelios 3 жыл бұрын

Ok so I bought your book, an I had questions about how big your pond was?

@Fireball64190 2 жыл бұрын

J’ai un petit coin de terre 300 pieds carrés mais question c’est qu’est-ce que tu utilises comme engrais?

@rekostarr7149 6 жыл бұрын

I thought contour plowing was to prevent soil erosion not to save water?

@ashleyshrader1427 5 жыл бұрын

They go together.

@classicrocklover5615 Жыл бұрын

How did he get the smell out of that rabbit coup?

@gardeniasuarezsuarez7728 Жыл бұрын

DEBERIAN PERMITIR TRADUCIR N EL VIDEO

@naluchlim4583 7 жыл бұрын

How can we can get the book? I really happy to see and understanding more detail about it. I am agronomist and planing of Organic vegetable company and work with Agriculture Cooperative due to help contract farming to get success with their farm

@2222Incomplet 7 жыл бұрын

You can buy his book off his website. The MarketGardener.com

@thumperhunts6250 3 жыл бұрын

in case you havent figured it out he probably makes just as much from teaching and courses and speaking as he does from the farm

@55Herbie1 8 жыл бұрын

What is the elevation of the location you are raising these crops and does it matter since it appears you are doing everything using a greenhouse? Thanks

@tret32 8 жыл бұрын

+55Herbie1 In the video it says he is in Quebec near the St Laurent River. So the elevation is probably close to sea level. You're welcome.

@61inaam 3 жыл бұрын

I just want to why the dislike for!!!!!?

@amyfeith384 6 жыл бұрын

$150,000 Canadian = $114,651 in American dollars (2014); 45% of $114,651 = only $51,592. That is not a good income for 2 people combined.

@Adj19888 6 жыл бұрын

4000 is not enough per month

@ashleyshrader1427 5 жыл бұрын

I make 40,000 as a single mom, family of 3. So $51,592 is a good amount to live off and even more so when you pick a life style that is not about money and keeping up with buying more and more to impress people. Value of live is better than value of possessions.

@daniellebradley2728 5 жыл бұрын

In another video he says that basically all of their living expenses are actually covered under business expenses. And in the beginning of the video he says they work March through December. So yes, they don’t make a ton of money, but $51,000 to basically go straight into savings for nine months of work is not awful.

@total-1804 4 жыл бұрын

My wife and I live quite comfortably raising 3 children on $60,000

@borjavivanco8600 4 жыл бұрын

Hi, the 45% of profit is after counting their salary, he said

@Budro4764 8 жыл бұрын

Actually you really don't have a french accent. I have more of a accent than you do. I am from south Louisiana. I have cousins in Laval and the other areas around there and I have friends that live there and come down here during the winter. Great vid Mon Ami Plus Tard ~!~~!

@etienneyitian 6 жыл бұрын

Vive le français :)

@55Herbie1 8 жыл бұрын

What type/brand of drainage tiles did you use?

@TheNOFAVT 8 жыл бұрын

+55Herbie1 Hello! Just wanted to point out that Jean-Martin Fortier spoke at a conference organized by NOFA-Vermont, which he generously allowed to be recorded and published on our KZfaq channel. However, it is unlikely he monitors this channel or reads the comments. To contact him directly, I would recommend visiting his website: www.themarketgardener.com/ Best!

@yourtub8705 7 жыл бұрын

burlington vermont?

@johnpaulsmajda 8 жыл бұрын

where is the slide share link?

@freshtofarming6352 8 жыл бұрын

+John Paul SMajda www.slideshare.net/JeanMartinFortier/full-day-workshop-the-market-gardener

@demammoet 8 жыл бұрын

Really nice, I am a huge fan of permaculture. But permaculture annoyed me in the sense that eventhough you can produce just fine with permaculture. IT really isn't geared to the have-nots in the world. I look at Sepp Holtzer and I love it, but we don't all come into the world with a million or 3 in property as a farming family, or just wealthy middle class to upper class families. In that sense I came to find permaculture super unrealistic and to boot their books at my current wealth or better call it poverty are a Bleeping rip-off.

@MrsMika 8 жыл бұрын

+demammoet One way the have-not can do permaculture is to start out like this guy in rented land (free is a very affordable price) for a year or two to make some money doing his high intensity veggie gardening and then you will have some money to buy some small land. Now on your own small property at the beginning start again with your intensive veggie plantings and slowly transition to perinnials and trees. Eventually you will be able to buy some more land and expand until you have the large acreage you want. If you go to Geoff Lawtons website you can see he make a 5 acres of permaculture abundance video and there is another one of him interviewing a old couple that has a very small farm in Hawaii that did exactly what I decribed to you above. Another idea is to find a old vacant lot in your city and ask the owner if you can farm it to get yourself started. Will Allen has taken parking lots and made compost on them building growing beds 2-3 foot deep of compost just on top of the parking lot. Hope this helps you in some way to move forward in your dream of farming.

@tkomla 7 жыл бұрын

demammoet bring your permaculture passion too Central Arkansas Permaculture Farm

@tkomla 7 жыл бұрын

MrsMika absolutely, great points here. and the sooner we start the better. JMFourier, Curtis Stone, Joel Salatin all fabulous guides.

@gregson99 6 жыл бұрын

so you are saying anyone can find free land to rent? Any links?

@Pepesplants 6 жыл бұрын

Why spend money on books. 99% of the information regarding permaculture is all over KZfaq. Get a bunch of like minded people to work together. Reach out and make it happen. You can do it!