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  • You Can Farm

  • The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
  • By: Joel Salatin
  • Narrated by: Joel Salatin
  • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (58 ratings)

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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

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  • 23-05-2023

Some brilliant points, and some of that should be left in the dark ages.

Joel gives great advice about structuring your business exploring what to produce and considerations around what you’re prepared to do. However, there are many parts of this book thus far that have made me squirm. And none of them were do with farming.

I tried to continue to listen, but with just as many values aligning with Joel Salatin’s, I have just as many that don’t.. for this reason I can’t continue.

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An enjoyable read for an aspiring farmer

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.

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lots of psudo science and Republican rhetoric

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.

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Nonsensical and delusional.

Joel’s speaking and recording quality is very average, he stumbles through some parts and seems to be making some parts up as he goes. Unfortunately that isn’t the worst part about this book.

It is entirely too long, in part thanks to Joels desire to constantly list things, an entirely unhelpful literary tool. Much of the information offered is entirely irrelevant and nonsensical, if not only applicable to Joel and his farm specifically. This book is riddled with generalisations, stereotypes and derogatory remarks about woman, ‘younger’ people, those who don’t farm, certain business people, government officials, those with mortgages ,most consumers and any one who happens to have more money then the average joe.

It’s intentions and message are not only misguided and borderline not applicable to the majority of people, but Joel’s entire premise for how to be a successful farmer doesn’t make ANY sense.

If you want to subscribe to Joel’s methods, don’t bother reading this book, it’s simple: don’t spend ANY money on ANYTHING, beg friends and family to do unpaid work on your farm, hire unpaid interns and just work yourself to death until you have financial fluidity. So just work endlessly and don’t do anything else for leisure (he even suggests letting your children play social sports and having a pet dog is a waste of money).

A sad and delusional book from a sad and delusional man. Absolute waste of time and money, I listened to the entire 16+ hours for the sake of fairness before reviewing and it sucked.

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Great listen highly recommend

great insight into what it takes to start up your own farm highly recommended to anyone that is thinking of starting a farm

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Great Introduction into Agricultural World.

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

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Fantastic

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

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Highly Recommend

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

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Inspired into action

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

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Always inspiring

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.

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