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The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables: More In-Depth Lean Techniques for Efficient Organic Production

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By (author): Ben Hartman

At Clay Bottom Farm, author Ben Hartman and staff practice kaizen, or continuous improvement, cutting out more wasteof time, labor, space, money, and moreevery year and aligning their organic production more tightly with customer demand. Applied alongside other lean principles originally developed by the Japanese auto industry, the end result has been increased profits and less work.

In this field-guide companion to his award-winning first book, The Lean Farm, Hartman shows market vegetable growers in even more detail how Clay Bottom Farm implements lean thinking in every area of their work, including using kanbans, or replacement signals, to maximize land use; germination chambers to reduce defect waste; and right-sized machinery to save money and labor and increase efficiency. From finding land and assessing infrastructure needs to selling perfect produce at the farmers market, The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables digs deeper into specific, tested methods for waste-free farming that not only help farmers become more successful but make the work more enjoyable. These methods include:

  • Using Japanese paper pot transplanters
  • Building your own germinating chambers
  • Leaning up your greenhouse
  • Making and applying simple composts
  • Using lean techniques for pest and weed control
  • Creating Heijunka, or load-leveling calendars for efficient planning

Farming is not static, and improvement requires constant change. The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables offers strategies for farmers to stay flexible and profitable even in the face of changing weather and markets. Much more than a simple exercise in cost-cutting, lean farming is about growing better, not cheaper, foodthe food your customers want.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 658g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Oct 2017
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781603586993

About Ben Hartman

Ben Hartman grew up on a corn and soybean farm in Indiana and graduated college with degrees in English and philosophy. Ben and his wife Rachel Hershberger own and operate Clay Bottom Farm in Goshen Indiana where they make their living growing and selling specialty crops on less than one acre. The farm has twice won Edible Michianas Readers Choice award. The Lean Farm Bens first book won the Shingo Institutes prestigious Publication Award. In 2017 Ben was named one of Grists fifty emerging green leaders in the United States. Clay Bottom Farm has developed an online course in lean farming which can be found at www.claybottomfarm.com.    

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