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You Can Farm

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise

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You Can Farm

By: Joel Salatin
Narrated by: Joel Salatin
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Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable.

After all, the farm population is dwindling. It takes too much capital to start. The pay is too low. The working conditions are dusty, smelly and noisy: Not the place to raise a family. This is all true, and more, for most farmers.

But for farm entrepreneurs, the opportunities for a farm family business have never been greater. The aging farm population is creating cavernous niches begging to be filled by creative visionaries who will go in dynamic new directions. As the industrial agriculture complex crumbles and our culture clambers for clean food, the countryside beckons anew with profitable farming opportunities.

While this audiobook can be helpful to all farmers, it targets the wannabes, the folks who actually entertain notions of living, loving and learning on a piece of land. Anyone willing to dance with such a dream should be able to assess its assets and liabilities; its fantasies and realities. "Is it really possible for me?" is the burning question this audiobook addresses.

You Can Farm is wonderfully narrated by the author, Joel Salatin, who co-owns (with his family) Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia.

©2018 Joel Salatin (P)2020 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Agricultural & Food Sciences Business Development & Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Science Farming Business
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great insight into what it takes to start up your own farm highly recommended to anyone that is thinking of starting a farm

Great listen highly recommend

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This is a really good book for those who aspire to be a farmer but don’t know where to start. You may not agree with everything in this book, but I feel that this book is a good start to get people thinking about how they want to farm, and what opportunities to develop their farm are around them in their communities. If anyone ever asks me how to start farming this will be the first book I would recommend they read.

An enjoyable read for an aspiring farmer

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lota of great unconventional information and fantastic narration, was an enjoyable listen on long car drives.

Fantastic

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Narrator is very informative, and easy to listen too. Provides many options and examples of different types of agricultural opportunities.

Great Introduction into Agricultural World.

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Stories supporting the message are so enjoyable, I almost forgot that I was trying to learn.
Good thing I can listen to this over and over while driving, mowing or digging.

Love his Stories

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Joel offers the perfect tools to make a start today! a great perspective and brutally honest.

Inspired into action

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His passion and easy to follow ideas are refreshing. I was a little disappointed with the sound quality when parts were obviously redone after the original recording, however you get over that relatively quickly. This book is a great early step in my farming journey.

Always inspiring

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Joel is easy to listen to and clearly explains many opportunities and challenges involved witb fatrming

Highly Recommend

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I saw this was released in April 2020 and thought it was a new book. It was actually written 22 years ago. His perspective on computers and personal identity are out of date and belong in the past. The recording is choppy and not the best

Dated and out of date

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while there was some worthwhile content about some topics such as marketing, there was also lots of promotion of psudoscience and religion. This is only partly about farming, mostly it's a promotion for the "cult of Salatin".
Matthew Evans book Soil, is a much better farming book. it's also very American, other countries have different laws and regulations which this book totally ignored.

lots of psudo science and Republican rhetoric

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