TITLE: THE PROFITABLE HOBBY FARM: How To Build A Sustainable Local Foods Business
AUTHOR: Sarah Beth Aubrey
PUBLISHER: Wiley Publishing, Hoboken, NJ, Copyright 2010
ISBN: (13) 978-1616645380
DESCRIPTION: Hardcover, Illustrated boards, 276 pages, Approx. 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches
ILLUSTRATIONS: B/W photos
CONDITION: LIKE NEW, Pages white, clean, and binding tight
ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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, money management in order to prosper and provides sound, friendly start-up advice on a variety of topics essential to making an initial foray into a local foods venture.
It's a down-to-earth guide to profitable hobby farming! It explains how to turn a hobby farm into a successful business raising and selling local, sustainable foods, and includes samples of business plans, grant applications and examples of marketing and advertising. 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
* Lengthy resources section directs you to additional reading
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.
Whether 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 must-read book for raising and selling local, sustainable foods
