The Well Planned Vegetable Garden

Jean-Martin Fortier is a farmer, author, and educator who has been involved in ecological agriculture for over twenty years. Since 2004, he and his wife have operated Les Jardins de la Grelinette, a 2-acre microfarm.

In 2015, Jean-Martin established La Ferme des Quatre-Temps, a research farm dedicated to training apprentices and developing new strategies for market gardening, including year-round production. His methods are taught worldwide through the Market Gardener Institute.

Jean-Martin is the author of The Winter Market Gardener and The Market Gardener, which have sold over a quarter of a million copies in nine languages. He has earned the Meritorious Service Cross from the Governor General of Canada. He farms and lives in Quebec, Canada.

Pierre Nessmann was born to a family of Strasbourg market gardeners and holds a degree from the cole d’Horticulture de Geneve, in Switzerland. He has worked as a landscape gardener and a journalist for over 40 years. He is the assistant editor of the French gardening magazines Rustica Pratique and Rustica Weekly, covers gardening and DIY stories for the French television Network TF1, and currently hosts a gardening segment on the show Nous Voil Bien, on the French radio station RTL. He is the author of several books about vegetable growing, gardening, and landscaping. Pierre lives in Paris, France.

Flore Avram is a freelance artist and graphic designer specializing in scientific and botanical illustration. She has collaborated with the French language children’s publisher KiloWatt Editions, and with Inserm Magazine. Flore has earned several professional certifications in graphic design and scientific illustration from L’Ecole Estienne. She also works as a Mediatrice en botanique at Jardin des Serres d’Auteuil. She is based in Paris, France.