You Can Farm by Joel Salatin

You Can Farm

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise

Joel Salatin

Rizzoli · Print & ebook · August 18, 1998

Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise?

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Who it’s for
A practical-minded look at whether a farm enterprise can support the life you imagine.
Themes
Starting a farming enterprise, Farm business opportunities, Assessing farming's risks and realities
Genres
Homesteading & Hobby Farming, Starting a Business, Agribusiness

About this book

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.

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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.

Farm’s Real Prospects

A practical-minded look at whether a farm enterprise can support the life you imagine.

Come here for

  • Thinking seriously about making a full-time living from farming
  • Balancing the dream of farm life with its assets and liabilities

Expect

  • An entrepreneurial lens on farming opportunities
  • A clear-eyed consideration of farming’s hard realities

Where it sits

Starting a Business41%
Homesteading & Hobby Farming30%
Agribusiness27%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Organic Farming
Authors
Joel Salatin
Publisher
Rizzoli
Published
August 18, 1998
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Starting a farming enterprise · Farm business opportunities · Assessing farming's risks and realities
Reading lane
Sustainable Agriculture