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Pawpaws

The Complete Growing and Marketing Guide
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Description

Discover a fresh new offering for your farm or orchard business

Pawpaws is the first in-depth guide to small-scale commercial cultivation of pawpaws. Also known as Indiana bananas or hipster bananas, this almost forgotten fruit, native to North America, is making a huge comeback with foodies, chefs, craft brewers, and discerning fruit-lovers.

Written by, and for, the organic grower, coverage includes:

  • Botany and the cultural history of pawpaws
  • Orchard siting and planning
  • Choosing the best-quality nursery trees
  • Descriptions of over 50 cultivars
  • Propagation and organic growing tips
  • Pests and disease management
  • Marketing and selling fresh pawpaws, seeds, and starts
  • Processing and producing value-added products.

Get ahead of the farming curve, diversify your orchard or food forest, and discover the commercial potential of America's almost forgotten native fruit with this comprehensive manual to small-scale commercial pawpaw production.

Product Details

PublisherNew Society Publishers
Publish DateMay 04, 2021
Pages248
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780865719552
Dimensions8.8 X 7.4 X 0.7 inches | 1.0 pounds

About the Author

Blake Cothron is an organic farmer, nurseryman, author, musician, and educator, with over 20 years' experience in organic agriculture, botany, horticulture, and growing food. He is the director of Peaceful Heritage Nursery LLC, a 5-acre research farm, permaculture orchard, and edible mail-order plant nursery. Author of Pawpaws: The Complete Growing and Marketing Guide, and The Berry Grower, he has also written for Permaculture Design magazine and various online publications. Blake has an educational YouTube channel devoted to horticulture, and he is also an educator with the Organic Association of Kentucky. He divides his time between farming, research, writing, beekeeping, homesteading, travel, fitness, church community, and being a husband and father in beautiful central Kentucky. www.peacefulheritage.com

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