The lean farm guide to growing vegetables
Subtitle: more in-depth lean techniques for efficient organic production
By: Ben Hartman
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781603586993
Subjects: Vegetable gardening; Organic gardening
Description: At Clay Bottom Farm, author Ben Hartman and staff practice kaizen, or continuous improvement, by cutting out more waste - of time, labor, space, money - every 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 greater 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.--COVER.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Planning the year with Heijunka and Kanban; title: Leaning up bed preparation; title: Compost making, small farm/style; title: Successful seed starting; title: Transplanting by hand; title: Paper pot magic; title: Four lean tips for direct-seeding; title: Weed and pest control; without Muda; title: Collecting cash: leaning up sales; title: Lean applied to our best-selling crops: seven case studies; title: Finding good land; title: Infrastructure and farm layout; title: Leaning up greenhouses.