Standardise your market garden #shorts

Name: Standardise your market garden #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-02-15T17:05:47+00:00
Duration: 49 s
Channel: Richard Perkins
Description: A short spoken piece by Richard Perkins advising market gardeners to standardize as many elements of production as possible (seed traits, planting…

15 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken piece by Richard Perkins advising market gardeners to standardize as many elements of production as possible (seed traits, planting spacing, bed preparation, seed orders, crop calendar). The goal is to reduce cognitive load and simplify a labour-intensive enterprise by making daily field operations predictable and efficient.

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Market gardening is a very labour intensive enterprise. Standardize everything you can. We start off by standardizing our seed traits to make sure they tessellate in our nursery space to make the maximum use of that expensive, high quality space. Then we standardize our planting. So every time I plant kohlrabi, I'm using the same spacing, same number of plants per bed. I'm standardizing my bed preparation, but. But by having standardized procedures, everything is simple. You don't have to think so much in the field. And that's also part of our planning. We standardize the seed orders and we have a crop calendar for the whole year so you know what to do every day of the year. And by doing that, it makes this really complex job as simple as it possibly can be.