@aaronl Getting a paper published in a high-impact journal is a necessary first step, by providing a level of reliability or trust that blog posts and articles on organic gardening websites does not. I am hoping for a series of papers, covering costs, labor inputs, productivity. That hinges on getting a first publication in a good journal.

@Jason Thank you, Jason. I have multiple avenues for attacking the promotion problem; only one is getting a paper in a respectable journal, though that is my best first step.

@Jason With scientific journals it's a matter of throwing mud at walls until something sticks. I may have to go through multiple rounds of submission, resubmission, rewrite, rejection, and then start over at another journal.

Yes Aaron, that is indeed the problem. But, low-quality journals that I can afford to submit to without help are simply not read very much, so the value of submitting to them is low. Thanks for viewing my submission and commenting.