The Profitable Hobby Farm, How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods Business
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 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.
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Book details
- Author
- Sarah Beth Aubrey
- Imprint
- Howell Book House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Technology & Engineering › Agriculture
- Topics
- hobby farming · sustainable agriculture · local food systems · small farm business · farm marketing · grants and financing · business planning
- ISBN-13
- 9780470432099 (Paperback)9781630262235 (Hardcover)
About the author
SARAH BETH AUBREY is an author, advisor, and executive coach specializing in agriculture, and the author of several books on farming and rural business. Her books include Championship Drive, The Profitable Hobby Farm: How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods Business, and Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business.
Aubrey holds a B.S. in Agricultural Communications from the University of Illinois and an M.S. in Strategic Communication from Purdue University. She has been named a 40 Under 40 leader in agriculture.
When she’s not writing, Aubrey operates in the agricultural business world, having founded A.C.T. (Aubrey Coaching & Training) and previously operated Aubrey’s Natural Meats. Her books draw directly on that experience in farming and rural enterprise.
Sarah lives on a farm in Central Indiana, where she and her husband raise cattle.