Jean-Martin Fortier

Jean-Martin Fortier is the founders of Les Jardins de la Grelinette, an internationally recognized micro-farm known for its high productivity and profitability using low-tech, high-yield methods of production. A leading practitioner of biologically intensive cropping systems, Jean-Martin has more than a decade’s worth of experience in small-scale organic farming and has facilitated more than fifty workshops and conferences in Europe, Canada and the US promoting the idea of micro-scale farming as an alternative lifestyle. Jean-Martin also contributes occasionally as a tool and equipment advisor for companies such as Johnny’s Selected Seeds and Dubois Agri-Novation. His first book, Le Jardinier-Maraîcher sold more than 15,000 copies in the original French language since its release in the fall of 2012.