The Profitable Hobby Farm (eBook)

Sarah Beth Aubrey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-118-49590-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Turn your hobby farm into a successful businessNo 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 foodsIncludes sample business plan, grant application, marketing and advertising plan, and other formsLengthy resources section directs you to additional readingAlso 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments vIntroduction viPart One: Creation and Veraison1 The Case for Small-Scale Farming and Local Foods Ventures 22 From Idea to Inventory: Planning and Assessing the Market 243 Funding Assistance 414 Rules, Regulations, and Legalese 65Part Two: Fresh Business Ideas5 Creating a Cooperative 886 Agritourism: Recreation as a Business 103Part Three: Selling, Marketing, and Prospecting7 Wholesale and Retail Pricing Strategies 1248 Where and How to Sell 1499 Marketing Ideas  17410 Keeping (and Keeping Track of) Customers 198Part Four: The First Year of Your Journey11 The Lifestyle Change and First-Year Transition Tips 224Finale: The Prints You Leave Behind 247Resources 248Sample Business Documents 255Index 269About the Author 275Photo Credits 276

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.10.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • Cost-Sharing • Financing • Grants • home marketplace • local foods • profitable hobby • Profitable Hobby Farm • Sarah Beth Aubrey • Sustainable living • sustainable local foods business
• ISBN-10: 1-118-49590-X / 111849590X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-49590-2 / 9781118495902