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This review is from: You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farm Enterprise (Paperback)
Nothing has motivated me more than Salatin's book, YOU CAN FARM. Finally, we are doing it! Wish I'd had this book 30 years ago, but the author was a child at the time. Extremely well written, shows how a couple willing to work hard can make a profit (when was the last time the average farmer heard that word?) on 20 acres. Very tactfully explains why most farmers not only are not profitable, but often require someone working off the farm in order to maintain the lifestyle. No longer necessary. But what is necessary is some rethinking of the rules, some creative marketing of what is produced, and a need for the farmer to think of himself (once again) as an independent businessman, rather than a cog in the wheel of agri-industry. Give this one to the young person who wants to go to the land, and watch what happens!
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This review is from: You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farm Enterprise (Paperback)
This title caught my eye; I had to make some management choices on some new land we had aquired. We had never grown field crops or livestock before.I found this book tremendous fun to read. Salatins enthusiasm and self assuredness is refreshing. He knows his subject. This book is biased towards Americians; sometimes it is not clear when he uses certain jargon unfamiliar to Brits. Also, the kind of slagging-off of intensive agriculture to potential customers he proposes you use to highlight your own good produce, seem to be too sensational for use in the UK (eg supermarket chicken = "fecal soup"). You just have to make a few allowances along the way. I have found this book very helpful in guiding my own thoughts about what farming choices I will be able to make in the future. I helps you to look at your own motivations, and see whether they are right or wrong.
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This review is from: You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farm Enterprise (Paperback)
This author is obviously a practical, down-to-earth guy who manages to convey his knowledge well through this book. Anyone with an interest in making any money at all out a smallholding should get hold of a copy, the author manages to cover everything from giving you ideas of what to grow/farm through to examples of newsletters to send your customer base. Examples of the authors experiance are scattered throughout and make this a riveting read, even for those of us in the UK. I look forward to purchasing Mr Salatin's other books.
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