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

Aubrey, Sarah Beth

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ISBN 10 : 1630262234 ISBN 13 : 9781630262235

Editeur : Howell Books, 2010

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.

A propos du livre

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.

Quatrième de couverture

A down–to–earth guide to profitable hobby farming

This book gives you all the information you need to start your own local foods business. You′ll get plain–English advice from a self–proclaimed farm–girl–turned– entrepreneur on:

• Trends in niche agriculture and local foods

• creating a business plan for a small–scale or hobby venture

• assessing your home marketplace and uncovering niches not yet served

• financing options, especially grants and cost–sharing programs

• free or low–cost marketing ideas

• basic strategies for surviving the first year in business

• and more

Whether you want to create a small hobby business or start up a full–time venture, The Profitable Hobby Farm is the book for you. Thoroughly researched and packed with information for putting ideas into action, this is your blueprint for building a sustainable local foods business.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Howell Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1630262234
• ISBN 13: 9781630262235
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible