The Profitable Hobby Farm: How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods Business

Sarah Beth Aubrey

ISBN 10: 0470432098 / ISBN 13: 9780470432099

Published by Howell Book House, 2010

About this Item

Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # EVV.0470432098.VG

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Profitable Hobby Farm: How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods Business
• Publisher: Howell Book House
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470432098
• ISBN 13: 9780470432099
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Turn your hobby farm into a successful business

No experience in farming? No problem! The Profitable Hobby Farm gives you all the tools you need to launch a thriving hobby farm business. Based on the author's expert guidance and the motivating experiences of other small farmers, it shows you how to blend strategy, marketing, and money management in order to prosper.

The Profitable Hobby Farm provides sound, friendly start-up advice on a variety of topics essential to making an initial foray into a local foods venture.

• A must-read book for raising and selling local, sustainable foods
• Includes sample business plan, grant application, marketing and advertising plan, and other forms
• Lengthy resources section directs you to additional reading
• Also by Aubrey: Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm BusinessWhether it's growing heirloom tomatoes, raising free-range chickens for their eggs, or making organic wine or cheese, this book shows you how to turn your hobby into a profit.

About the Author

Sarah Beth Aubrey was born into a family of farmers and was raised to believe, like Scarlett O'Hara, that it is land that sustains after all else. In addition to operating her company, Aubrey's Natural Meats, Sarah writes and speaks extensively on agriculture, the rural lifestyle, and small farm development.