Start Your Farm
Trade Paperback
Written in straightforward language, rich with anecdotes, practical examples, and sprinkled throughout with rural humor, 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 Polishuk and 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 organized 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.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781615194896
- Author: Ellen Polishuk, Forrest Pritchard
- Pub date: 30.10.18
- RRP: $39.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Ellen Polishuk, Forrest Pritchard
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.