Start Your Farm

Name: Start Your Farm
Brand: Affirm Press
SKU: 9781615194896
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The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st-Century Farmer

By Ellen Polishuk and Forrest Pritchard

Summary

Start Your Farm by Ellen Polishuk and Forrest Pritchard is a practical guide for aspiring farmers. The authors draw on their personal experiences to highlight key principles of sustainable farming, offering insights on planning, operation, and marketing successfully. It's an invaluable resource for those passionate about creating a thriving, eco-conscious farming business.
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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

You might enjoy this book if you're captivated by the idea of sustainable farming and want to learn practical strategies for starting your own farm. It's an inspiring and informative guide from experienced farmers, offering insights on everything from soil health to financial planning, making it a must-read for aspiring farmers and nature enthusiasts alike.

Start Your Farm

For Millennials and GenXers who dream of a job with a deeper meaning than climbing a corporate ladder, retiring Baby Boomers seeking to combine an active outdoor lifestyle with a supplemental income, and already practicing farmers looking to transition to a new, more sustainable type of production.

Description

Written in straightforward language, rich with anecdotes, practical examples, and sprinkled throughout with rural humour, Start Your Farm is the perfect introduction to the ever-growing ranks of wannabe farmers—people who dream of starting their own successful operation. The book offers essential step-by-step advice, as well as useful illustrations and diagrams.

Start Your Farm combines nearly five decades of experience from two of America's pioneering sustainable farmers. From vegetables to livestock, from small-scale plots to large acreages, from West Coast to East, authors Ellen Polishuk and Forrest Pritchard have not only lived the farming dream, they have succeeded at it. Now, new farmers can benefit from their wealth of experience, finding valuable information specifically organised and tailored for them. Wide in scope but thorough in detail, Start Your Farm is a book that can be read straight through, cherry-picked for individual chapters, and kept as a handy ongoing reference.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Start Your Farm is praised for being an insightful and realistic guide for aspiring farmers, addressing both the challenges and rewards of farming. The authors offer practical advice and draw from their decades of sustainable farming experience to provide a motivational yet candid perspective. It's recommended for its blend of humour and humility and is valued for its balance of practical advice and encouragement, addressing both the 'how' and 'why' of farming.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781615194896

Publisher: The Experiment LLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 September 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: The Experiment LLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 218.0mm

Weight: 491g

Pages: 272

Collections

Education & Reference Ellen Polishuk Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Forrest Pritchard Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Forrest Pritchard is the New York Times-bestselling author. Pritchard is also a full-time organic livestock farmer and seventh-generation producer, serving weekly markets in the Washington DC metro area. His books have been named top reads by The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and many more.

Ellen Polishuk is a first-generation sustainable vegetable farmer, holding a degree in Horticulture from Virginia Tech. In 1992, with five farm seasons under her belt, she was hired by Potomac Vegetable Farms to manage their satellite farm in Virginia, fifty miles west of DC. After twenty-five years at Potomac Vegetable Farms, where she was a co-owner, she now consults and teaches full-time, specializing in sustainable agriculture, vegetable growing practices, and increasing farm profitability.