Growing for Market

Growing for Market Growing for Market is the only magazine focused solely on vegetable and flower market farmers, since 1992.

Growing for Market is the magazine for local food and flower producers. GFM keeps you informed about the business of growing and selling vegetables, fruits, cut flowers, plants, herbs, and other food products. If you are market gardening or farming, whatever your scale, we guarantee you'll find valuable information that will help make your business more profitable and enjoyable. We publish 10 issues per year that are packed with useful information about growing and selling farm products.

09/15/2026

Theme of the month: topping and getting the most out of the end of the season. Comment COACH for a link to the 40hr Farmer video/live coaching it’s free for Orisha customers and Growing For Market Magazine subscribers!

09/14/2026

Planting a bigger seedling allows you to get more rounds of lettuce in a year- for more GH tips follow Orisha and Growing For Market Magazine !

09/14/2026

Meteorologist Keith Carson sheds some light on whether there’s any way to make sense of our weird weather on this week’s podcast comment PODCAST for a link!

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09/12/2026

We talk about how to understand our increasingly erratic weather with meteorologist Keith Carson on this week’s podcast comment PODCAST for a link!

Thanks to our sponsors!
Burpee’s Farmers Market is dedicated to professional growers- now offering seeds in larger quantities – bred and selected for standout flavor, strong yields, and the kind of visual appeal your customers crave. Check out the full lineup at Burpee.com/FarmersMarket.

builds high tunnels that are easy to install and built to last. Their bolt-together construction makes setup straightforward- especially through their community build option, where professional builders work alongside you to build each structure- usually in a single day. Visit niftyhoops.com for more.

BCS two-wheel tractors are designed and built in Italy where small-scale farming has been a way of life for generations. Discover the beauty of on your farm with PTO-driven implements for soil-working, shredding cover crops, spreading compost and more – visit bcsamerica.com to find sale pricing and your nearest dealer.

is the all-in-one platform built for direct-market farms — CSA, farmers market, and farmstand growers who'd rather be in the field than juggling five different apps. Online store and subscriptions, delivery and pickup routing, SMS and email marketing, waitlist management, and now farm events: sell tickets to u-picks, tours, dinners, and workshops in minutes, with capacity caps, QR check-in, and SMS/email confirmations built in. Every ticket also puts a name, email, and phone on a list you keep. See how farmers are growing direct-to-consumer sales and set up a free account at farmhand.partners/gfm

09/11/2026

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Saltmarsh caterpillars are essentially a “potato chip” of the caterpillar-eating beneficial insect world. Hopefully, the...
09/11/2026

Saltmarsh caterpillars are essentially a “potato chip” of the caterpillar-eating beneficial insect world. Hopefully, they feed the beneficial insects that, if fostered on your farm, provide control of other pest species. Because they typically have low damage potential you can know that an alarming-looking gregarious feeding cluster doesn’t require a high-adrenaline panicked response. I encourage you to appreciate the species, if you do see it, and carefully evaluate if they’re actually going to be a pest of economic significance before you take any management actions beyond perhaps hand-squishing what’s right in front of you. In the first photo, an adult sphecid wasp is paralyzing a saltmarsh caterpillar to feed its young. Photo by Howard
Ensign Evans, Colorado State University, bugwood.org. In the second photo, the larva of a sphecid wasp is feeding on a saltmarsh caterpillar. Photo by Howard Ensign Evans, Colorado State University, bugwood.org. Read the article by Caleb Goossen at in this month's Growing for Market Magazine comment SUBSCRIBE to start your own subscription!

09/10/2026

Let us know what you’re wondering about at this point in the season and we’ll let you know what we think!

09/10/2026

How do we make sense of our weather? That’s what we talk with meteorologist Keith Carson about on this week’s podcast comment PODCAST for a link!

Thanks to our sponsors!
is the all-in-one platform built for direct-market farms — CSA, farmers market, and farmstand growers who'd rather be in the field than juggling five different apps. Online store and subscriptions, delivery and pickup routing, SMS and email marketing, waitlist management, and now farm events: sell tickets to u-picks, tours, dinners, and workshops in minutes, with capacity caps, QR check-in, and SMS/email confirmations built in. Every ticket also puts a name, email, and phone on a list you keep. See how farmers are growing direct-to-consumer sales and set up a free account at farmhand.partners/gfm

builds high tunnels that are easy to install and built to last. Their bolt-together construction makes setup straightforward- especially through their community build option, where professional builders work alongside you to build each structure- usually in a single day. Visit niftyhoops.com for more.

Burpee’s Farmers Market is dedicated to professional growers- now offering seeds in larger quantities – bred and selected for standout flavor, strong yields, and the kind of visual appeal your customers crave. Check out the full lineup at Burpee.com/FarmersMarket.

BCS two-wheel tractors are designed and built in Italy where small-scale farming has been a way of life for generations. Discover the beauty of on your farm with PTO-driven implements for soil-working, shredding cover crops, spreading compost and more – visit bcsamerica.com to find sale pricing and your nearest dealer.

09/09/2026

Comment COACH for a link to our GH 🍅 video/live coaching program it’s free for GFM subscribers and Orisha customers!

A single saltmarsh caterpillar’s feeding damage might go unnoticed — but they never show up alone. Saltmarsh caterpillar...
09/09/2026

A single saltmarsh caterpillar’s feeding damage might go unnoticed — but they never show up alone. Saltmarsh caterpillars show up en masse and create a lot of superficial feeding damage in one location at first. This is described as “gregarious” oviposition (egg-laying) and feeding behavior, and is unlike other familiar pest caterpillar species such as squash vine borer or hornworm, which typically lay eggs individually, described as “solitary oviposition.”
Because their eggs are laid in masses of hundreds at a time (one source even stated that it is not unusual to find an egg cluster with more than 1,000 eggs), a single plant that they hatch on will often show significant feeding damage that can look quite concerning. While larger plantings may have multiple hatch-out sites from multiple adult female moths, they typically show up on a very small portion of an overall crop.
From the Sept GFM comment SUBSCRIBE to start your own subscription. Article and photo by Caleb P. Goossen

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