Market Gardener Institute

He's the author of The Market Gardener, a bestselling book which has sold a quarter of a million copies in nine languages.

His name is Jean-Martin Fortier, and to keep things simple, he goes by the name JM, thank goodness.

[laughs] And just in case you're curious, here's what he said about the pronunciation of his name.

My, my French name is Jean-Martin, so Jean-Martin.

And Elliott went and really kind of commercialized all of it, worked with Johnny Seeds.

It's the same kind of system that Jean-Martin Fortier and Curtis Stone and some of these other people kind of promote.

But there's a really nice set of tools around this 30-inch bed system where you are trying to get as much out of that ground as you possibly can.

So if you're interested in intensive farming, meaning trying to get as much as you can out of a small piece of land, the person that I would turn to to look at as a premier example is a guy by the name of Ray Tyler.

When I heard that today's guest, who's been a guiding force in educating organic farmers, was finally publishing a book specifically for gardeners, I was thrilled.

I'd been following JM Fortier since his first handbook on biointensive organic market farming came out more than a decade ago, and even gone to hear him speak at farming conferences, then done my best to translate and distill his advice and apply it to my own garden size and conditions.

Now, J.M. has done all the translating from farm to backyard scale for all of us within the pages of his latest In Your Garden, The Complete Guide to Home Vegetable Gardening.

And those who grow edibles at home can benefit from every last insight he shares from soil and bed prep to crop spacing and succession schedules and exacting details on how to have the greatest success with each crop.