
You Can Farm
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
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
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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.
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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 Business | 41% |
|---|---|
| Homesteading & Hobby Farming | 30% |
| Agribusiness | 27% |
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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