Author: John Covert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Gaining Ground
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.
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.
Keeping the Family in the Family Ranch
Author: John Covert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Keeping it in the Family
Author: John R. Baker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317109325
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
As the largest group of natural resource managers on the planet, farmers are at the interface of the changing relationship between humans and the environment. Typically organised around what might be considered the most basic of social units, for generations the family farm has survived wide-ranging exogenous challenges, frequently preserving the line of succession to the next of kin. Now as we face major questions about how we use land and the impact of our land use on the global environment, farming once again faces a challenging and uncertain future. This book draws on the experiences of farmers in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Japan and the EU to examine the special features of family farms and, in particular, the tradition of succession which has enabled them to continue to have such a strong presence in the world today.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317109325
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
As the largest group of natural resource managers on the planet, farmers are at the interface of the changing relationship between humans and the environment. Typically organised around what might be considered the most basic of social units, for generations the family farm has survived wide-ranging exogenous challenges, frequently preserving the line of succession to the next of kin. Now as we face major questions about how we use land and the impact of our land use on the global environment, farming once again faces a challenging and uncertain future. This book draws on the experiences of farmers in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Japan and the EU to examine the special features of family farms and, in particular, the tradition of succession which has enabled them to continue to have such a strong presence in the world today.
Keeping the Family Farm in the Family
Family Income and Expenditures
Author: Helen Hollingsworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Family Food Consumption and Dietary Levels, Five Regions
Author: United States. Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Consumer Purchases Study: Family expenditures for automobile and other transportation, five regions, by Day Monroe, Dorothy S. Brady, June F. Constantine, K.L. Benson. 1941
Author: United States. Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Family Income and Expenditures
Family Expenditures for Housing and Household Operation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description