Five Acres and Independence

Five Acres and Independence
Author: Maurice G. Kains
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0486316882

This classic of the back-to-the-land movement is packed with solid, timeless information. Written by a renowned horticulturist, it has taught generations how to make their land self-sufficient. 95 figures.

We Wanted a Farm

We Wanted a Farm
Author: Maurice G. Kains
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-06-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0486316378

In this engaging and informative memoir, the author of the classic Five Acres and Independence relates his family's experiences in realizing a dream of establishing and maintaining their own small farm.

Making Your Small Farm Profitable

Making Your Small Farm Profitable
Author: Ron Macher
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010-11-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1603425357

Turn your farm into a cash cow! Ron Macher offers a host of simple strategies for increasing your farm earnings, from purchasing durable equipment to growing economically viable crops. A seasoned expert in farm efficiency, Macher shows you how to locate a lucrative niche market for your products, optimize sales, and minimize costs. Whether you’re buying a new farm or jump-starting an old one, Macher’s savvy tips will help you turn your enterprise into a profitable business.

Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business

Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business
Author: Sarah Beth Aubrey
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2008-01-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1603429190

Running your own small farm is demanding enough, but making it profitable presents a host of further challenges. In this business-savvy guide to farming on a small scale, Sarah Aubrey covers everything from financial plans and advertising budgets to web design and food service wholesalers. Learn how to isolate your target audience and craft artisanal products that will delight and amaze customers. With a solid business strategy in place, you can confidently turn your passion into a productive and profitable venture.

Buying and Setting Up Your Small Farm Or Ranch

Buying and Setting Up Your Small Farm Or Ranch
Author: L. R. Miller
Publisher: Small Farmer's Journal
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Small Farmer's Journal is after a new view of involvement, ownership, craftsmanship, and the understandable/mysterious seeds of magic. They also seek the craft of good farming and the faith that comes of thankful farming. Small Farmer's Journal wants to be defenders and agents of and for good farming and they realize that they are a small endeavor with small consequences.This large, illustrated book offers some uniquely modern and helpful information geared toward assisting people to land a new small farm operation of their own. Beginning with the what fors and where fors, and walking carefully through the pitfalls and challenges of the looking and buying process, this book could save the prospective farm buyer time, money, and headache.

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Author: Harriette Gillem Robinet
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2011-02-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1439136238

Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.

Ten Acres Enough

Ten Acres Enough
Author: Edmund Morris
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1866
Genre: History
ISBN:

Compact Farms

Compact Farms
Author: Josh Volk
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1612125948

Small is beautiful, and these 15 real farm plans show that small-scale farmers can have big-time success. Compact Farms is an illustrated guide for anyone dreaming of starting, expanding, or perfecting a profitable farming enterprise on five acres or less. The farm plans explain how to harness an area’s water supply, orientation, and geography in order to maximize efficiency and productivity while minimizing effort. Profiles of well-known farmers such as Eliot Coleman and Jean-Martin Fortier show that farming on a small scale in any region, in both urban and rural settings, can provide enough income to turn the endeavor from hobby to career. These real-life plans and down-and-dirty advice will equip you with everything you need to actually realize your farm dreams.