Author: Forrest Pritchard Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0762794380 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 341
Book Description
With humor and pathos, Forrest Pritchard recounts his ambitious and often hilarious endeavors to save his family’s seventh-generation farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Through many a trial and error, he not only saves Smith Meadows from insolvency but turns it into a leading light in the sustainable, grass-fed, organic farm-to-market community. There is nothing young Farmer Pritchard won’t try. Whether he’s selling firewood and straw, raising free-range chickens and hogs, or acquiring a flock of Barbados Blackbelly sheep, his learning curve is steep and always entertaining. Pritchard’s world crackles with colorful local characters—farm hands, butchers, market managers, customers, fellow vendors, pet goats, policemen—bringing the story to warm, communal life. His most important ally, however, is his renegade father, who initially questions his son's career choice and eschews organic foods for the generic kinds that wreak havoc on his health. Soon after his father’s death, the farm becomes a recognized success and Pritchard must make a vital decision: to continue serving the local community or answer the exploding demand for his wares with lucrative Internet sales and shipping deals. More than a charming story of honest food cultivation and farmers’ markets, Gaining Ground tugs on the heartstrings, reconnecting us to the land and the many lives that feed us.
Author: Doug Hoverson Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452913374 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
A visual history of MInnesota beers and breweries traces the evolution of the state's beer industry, from the 1849 construction of the first brewery to the growth of small-town enterprises that gave way to large companies of regional and national prominence, offering a comprehensive list of Minnesota breweries as well as more than three hundred illustrations of beer and breweriana.
Author: Joel Salatin Publisher: ISBN: 9780963810939 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"Family Friendly Farming offers hope for stressed families, dissatisfied employees, and hurried-harried lifestyles. Based on his love affair with good farming, author Joel Salatin's principles apply to all entrepreneurial, family businesses"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Laura Hudgens Publisher: Mascot Books ISBN: 9781631779060 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
With a cute family farm story, phonics, and colorful illustrations, this amazing book is great for any young reader. Come along with the Berns as they have a full day of excitement.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms Publisher: ISBN: Category : Family farms Languages : en Pages : 40
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms Publisher: ISBN: Category : Family farms Languages : en Pages : 168
Author: Mary Neth Publisher: ISBN: 9780801848988 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 378
Book Description
Between 1900 and 1940 American family farming gave way to what came to be called agribusiness. Government policies, consumer goods aimed at rural markets, and the increasing consolidation of agricultural industries all combined to bring about changes in farming strategies that had been in use since the frontier era. Because the Midwestern farm economy played an important part in the relations of family and community, new approaches to farm production meant new patterns in interpersonal relations as well. In Preserving the Family Farm Mary Neth focuses on these relations--of gender and community--to shed new light on the events of this crucial period. (source: 4e de couverture).
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights Publisher: ISBN: Category : Agricultural laws and legislation Languages : en Pages : 496
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies Publisher: ISBN: Category : Family farms Languages : en Pages : 192
Author: Forrest Pritchard
Author: Doug Hoverson
Author: Joel Salatin
Author: Laura Hudgens
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms
Author: Mary Neth
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies