You Can Farm

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

You Can Farm
Pages:480 pages
Book Art:Black and white photos
Size: 6 x 9 inch
Publisher:Polyface
Pub. Date: August 18, 1998
ISBN: 9780963810922

You Can Farm

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

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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.

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.

 


About Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin and his family own Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, chemical-free and carbon-driven since 1961. This is his 17th book dealing with practice and philosophy in farming that is economically, ecologically, and emotionally enhancing. Featured in countless media outlets, from print to audio to video, Salatin is known as America’s most famous farmer. He speaks worldwide to farmers, foodies, and food freedom advocates about healing food systems and farmscapes.