Course: Profitability in the Market Garden with JM Fortier

Cork Rooftop Farm are delighted to bring you an exciting 1-day masterclass course in Profitability in the Market Garden with the world renowned Canadian market gardener JM Fortier.

Join us for an intensive and hands-on 1-day masterclass featuring a focus on living soils, and choosing the most profitable field crops in the market garden. The course will take place on Cork Rooftop Farm’s Glenbrook holding, just north of Cork City.

• DATE: Sunday June 29th, 2025
• TIMES: 10.30am to 6.30pm
• VENUE: Glenbrook (Cork Rooftop Farm), near White’s Cross, Co Cork T23 TC67
• COST: Just €175 when you sign up through NOTS or else €290 (includes lunch and a BBQ dinner)
• PARTICIPANTS: Strictly limited (Sign up ASAP to confirm your place)

Please note – to qualify for the NOTS rate, you must be a) resident in Ireland; and b) employed in any sector (either full-time or part-time). If you are not currently in employment – please sign up directly through Cork Rooftop Farm. Course Topics / Elements include:

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Keys to Profitability in the Market Garden

Can small farms really be profitable? It’s a question that many people ask themselves before getting started, or in the early stages of their farm if they are struggling to make ends meet. The answer is YES, small farms can be profitable. It has been demonstrated by thousands of growers all over the world that you can make a good living growing organic vegetables on a small piece of land. To help improve your bottom line, this session will teach:

● How to set goals to grow your bottom line

● Which clients to focus on in order to increase sales

● How to set prices to grow your profits

● Which investments to make for long-term growth

Working With Living Soil

Everyone’s talking about soil these days: no-till, no-dig, carbon farming, regenerative agriculture and so on. What unites all these philosophies is living soils. In this information-packed workshop, JM Fortier will explain his approach to healthy soils and introduce the practices he has been testing and applying on his 2 acre farm for more than 20 years.

● How to set up permanent beds

● Working with crop rotation and cover crops in an intensive system

● Teaming with micro-organism to build a Healthy Soil Food

Most profitable field crops in the market garden

Ever wonder what field crops can bring you the most bang for your buck? Join master grower JM Fortier as he shares the precise techniques he uses to produce fast growing field crops that offer higher yields.

● Learn crop itineraries from planting to weeding to cultivating to harvesting.

● How to maximize revenue per bed with high rotation crops

Info: Guided exploration of Glenbrook’s rooftop urban farm. Learn about soil systems, city-scale production, and rooftop innovation.

Info: How to set up permanent beds

• Working with crop rotation and cover crops in an intensive system

• Teaming with micro-organisms to build healthy soil

Info: Lunch Prepared by Darren Kennedy of Glass Curtain, featuring farm grown seasonal ingredients.

Info: Learn crop itineraries from planting to weeding to harvesting

• How to maximise revenue per bed with high-rotation crops

Info: • How to set goals to grow your bottom line
• Which clients to focus on to increase sales
• How to set prices to grow profits
• Which investments to make for long-term growth

Info: BBQ - Farm-fresh feast prepared by Darren Kennedy of Glass Curtain with produce from Cork Rooftop and Glenbrook Farms.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Glenbrook Farm, Glenbrook, Cork, Ireland