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Innovative growers create additional income through unconventional channels. These selections might contain the keys to added prosperity for you.
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Farm Business:

Farms With a Future
Farms With a Future will help guide farmers to manage for long-term sustainability and build a triple-bottom-line farming business focused on economic viability, social justice, and ecological soundness.

Fearless Farm Finances
Farms with a Future explores the passion, creativity, and entrepreneurship that’s needed to help family farms find their niche and remain sustainable and successful in an age of agribusiness and consolidation.

Honor System Marketing
Tells how to adapt honor marketing to fit your own needs and capacities.

How to Not go Broke Ranching
Real-life advice on making ranching operations more profitable, less dependent upon purchased inputs and a better way to live and raise a family.

Ranching Full-Time on Three Hours A Day
Feed more people than other ranchers, have grasslands that are more productive and useful than they previously were, and enjoy raising a family without spending all your time working.

The Farmstead Creamery Advisor
This book goes far beyond the issues of caring for livestock and basic cheesemaking and into the real business of successfully creating high-quality, handmade artisanal cheeses right on the farm.

The Organic Dairy Handbook
This whole-farm management resource is essential for farmers interested in organic production and those transitioning from conventional to organic dairy production.

The Sheer Ecstasy of Being A Lunatic Farmer
50 years of being a “lunatic” farmer, Joel Salatin has plenty of reflective and humorous stories to tell about his beloved Polyface Farm and in defense of a more localized, diversified food system — ammunition to combat conventional farming naysayers.

The Transition Document
Subtitled, Toward a Biologically Resilient Agriculture, with insightful discussion on the research and discoveries of innovative people who have shaped the course of biologically resilient agriculture over the last 30 years.

Transitioning to Organic Dairy Workbook
This workbook evaluates whether organic dairy is a good option and introduces many of the requirements needed to implement a successful transition. This workbook is designed to be used with the companion book, The Organic Dairy Handbook.

The Organic Farming Manual
The know-how to prepare beginning farmers for organic food production or experienced farmers making the transition from traditional farming techniques.

Marketing Grassfed Products Profitably
With a focus on ranch-based consumer marketing, this book is chock full of ideas that can be immediately implemented to market any farm consumer product, grassfed or otherwise.

MetroFarm
Comprehensive guide for growing for profit in or near the city.

Whole-Farm Planning (book)
Learn how to assess the whole farm so that you can understand what you are managing — including people, money and physical and mental assets; as well as how to analyze the farm ecosystem.

Crop Rotation on Organic Farms: A Planning Manual
An in-depth look at crop rotation, this manual will assist growers through the maze of decisions in planning crop rotations, and show how to use crop rotation to build better soil, control pests, and develop profitable farms.

Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry
A comprehensive guide to naturally and humanely raising a wide range of poultry from chickens, turkeys, waterfowl and game birds to uncommon species, such as pigeons, emus, doves, ostriches, peafowl and swans.

The Profitable Hobby Farm
This book offers direct, concise and friendly advice on the essential selling, marketing and business details needed for an initial foray into a niche agriculture venture.

A Farmer's Guide to the Bottom Line
Planning to implementation of business practices for family-scale farms.

Business Advice for Organic Farmers DVD
Invaluable exercises for business-savvy farmers, including farm operation costs, office and bookkeeping management, creating a budget and a crop enterprise plan — all the nuts and bolts of business management.

Rebirth of the Small Family Farm
Complete handbook for starting a CSA.

Small Farms Are Real Farms
In this collection of essays by one of America's most eloquent and influential proponents of sustainable agriculture, the multifaceted case for small farms is built using logic and facts.

The Potential of Herbs as a Cash Crop
Herb growing, processing, marketing.

Alcohol Can Be A Gas
This is the most comprehensive text on alcohol production and use ever written.

All Flesh Is Grass
The pleasures and promises of pasture farming.

American Farmstead Cheese
The complete guide to making and selling artisan cheeses.

Backyard Market Gardening
Entrepreneur's guide to selling what you grow.

Building A Sustainable Business
A guide to developing a business plan for farms and rural business


Farms With a Future

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal
From a lifetime of noncompliance, frustration, humor and passion come the behind-the-scenes real stories that have brought this little family farm into the forefront of the non-industrial food system.

Family Friendly Farming
Polyface Farm's Joel Salatin shares his farm-based family enterprise.

Farm Fresh
A guide for graziers to increase their income by direct marketing.

Grassfed to Finish
Grassfed to Finish shows producers how to create a consistently tender, flavorful, gourmet grass-fed product all year long.

Growing & Selling Fresh-Cut Herbs
Turn your hobby into a fulfilling career.

Holy Cows and Hog Heaven
The food buyers guide to farm friendly food.

How to Direct Market Your Beef
Shows how one ranching couple used their family's ranch to launch a profitable operation.

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered.

Knowledge Rich Ranching
How to financially succeed in the cattle business today.

Land Livestock & Life
A Grazier's Guide to Finance shows how to separate land from livestock businesses, make money on leased land by custom grazing, and how to create a quality lifestyle on the farm.

Making Your Small Farm Profitable
Small farm management, developing new markets.

Management-Intensive Grazing
The grassroots of grass farming.

Micro Eco-Farming
Restore the planet and produce unheard-of amounts of healthy products.

No Risk Ranching
Custom grazing on leased land.

Organic Seed Production and Saving
For farmers and gardeners who want to be more selective and self-sufficient in what they grow, Connolly explains plant selection, pollination, seed storage and the genetics of hybrid varieties.

Raising Earthworms for Profit
A multi-million dollar market.

Record Keeping for Organic Growers
All farmers can benefit from an efficient and well organized record keeping system. Explained are the steps to set up a field-to-table audit trail that will make both your customers and inspector happy.

Recycle with Earthworms
The red wiggler connection.

Sustainable Vegetable Production From Start-up to Market
To help growers plan and manage vegetable production systems.

The Legal Guide for Direct Farm Marketing
Professor of Law and Director of Agricultural Law Center details legal issues.

The New Agritourism
Fun, profitable ways to host the community and tourists on your farm.

The New Farmers' Market
Starting, managing and promoting the market.

The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook
Contrary to popular belief, a good living can be made on an organic farm. What’s required is farming smarter, not harder.











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