Lisa Kivirist

Soil Sisters (eBook, ePUB)

A Toolkit for Women Farmers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first practical, hands-on guide for female farmers

Women in agriculture are sprouting up in record numbers, but they face a host of distinct challenges and opportunities. Blending What Color is Your Parachute -style career advice with sustainable agriculture practices viewed through a gender lens, Soil Sisters provides a wealth of invaluable information for fledging female farming entrepreneurs.

The first manual of its kind, this authoritative and comprehensive blueprint presents practical considerations from a woman's perspective, covering everything from business planning to tool use and ergonomics to integrating children and family in farm operations. Key topics include:

• Finding your niche: mid-life encore careers, young & beginning, boomerangs and more
• From concept to crop: diversified farm start-up basics
• Resources, grants & loans for women farmers.

Soil Sisters also contains case studies, inspirational ideas and savvy advice nuggets from over 100 successful women farmers and advocates. Targeted specifically to members of the fastest-growing demographic in local agriculture, this highly readable guide is practical and pragmatic "Chick Lit" for today's food scene.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781550926026
• Artikelnr.: 44755597

Autorenporträt

Lisa Kivirist with her husband, John Ivanko, is co-author of Homemade for Sale, Farmstead Chef, ECOpreneuring and Rural Renaissance. Lisa and her family run Inn Serendipity Farm and Bed & Breakfast, completely powered by the wind and sun in the rolling green hills of southern Wisconsin.