| You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farm Enterprise Contributor(s): Salatin, Joel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0963810928 ISBN-13: 9780963810922 Publisher: Polyface OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: This is the book is for anyone who has ever dreamed of being a farmer. Practical and optimistic, You Can Farm gives prospective farmers a clear, step-by-step approach to turn their vision of a farm into a marketable reality. Illuminating both the pitfalls and the promise of farming, Salatin shows how you can make a living, and even a profit, by working the land. This readable guide is packed with advice that takes into account the whole farm, from getting along with neighbors to deep bedding livestock. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Organic - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture |
| Dewey: 630.68 |
| LCCN: 98066457 |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6" W x 9" (1.60 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable. After all, the farm population is dwindling. It takes too much capital to start. The pay is too low. The working conditions are dusty, smelly and noisy: not the place to raise a family. This is all true, and more, for most farmers. But for farm entrepreneurs, the opportunities for a farm family business have never been greater. The aging farm population is creating cavernous niches begging to be filled by creative visionaries who will go in dynamic new directions. As the industrial agriculture complex crumbles and our culture clambers for clean food, the countryside beckons anew with profitable farming opportunities. While this book can be helpful to all farmers, it targets the wannabes, the folks who actually entertain notions of living, loving and learning on a piece of land. Anyone willing to dance with such a dream should be able to assess its assets and liabilities; its fantasies and realities. Is it really possible for me? is the burning question this book addresses.
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Contributor Bio(s): Salatin, Joel: - Joel Salatin and his family own and operate Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The farm produces pastured beef, pork, chicken, eggs, turkeys, rabbits, lamb and ducks, servicing roughly 6,000 families and 50 restaurants in the farm's bioregion. He has written 11 books to date and lectures around the world on land healing, local food systems. |