Pawpaws: The Complete Growing and Marketing Guide

Interested in pawpaws?  Discover a fresh new offering for your farm or orchard business

Pawpaws is the first in-depth guide to small-scale commercial cultivation of pawpaws. Also known as Indiana bananas or hipster bananas, this almost forgotten fruit, native to North America, is making a huge comeback with foodies, chefs, craft brewers, and discerning fruit-lovers.

Written by, and for, the organic grower, coverage includes:

• Botany and the cultural history of pawpaws

• Orchard siting and planning

• Choosing the best-quality nursery trees

• Descriptions of over 150 cultivars

• Beautiful Color photo section

• Propagation and in-depth organic growing guidelines

• Pests and disease management

• Marketing and selling fresh pawpaws, and value-added goods

• Processing and producing value-added products.

Get ahead of the farming curve, diversify your orchard or food forest, and discover the commercial potential of America's almost forgotten native fruit with this comprehensive how-to manual to small-scale commercial pawpaw production.

Pawpaws is an in-depth guide to growing and marketing North America's forgotten native fruit at small commercial orchard scale. Coverage includes selecting cultivars, orchard planning, propagating, organic growing, pest management, harvesting, marketing, and value-added products.

NOTE: The books will ship starting in May 2021 as soon as we get them from the publisher!