by Joel Salatin
Softcover, 480 pages
ISBN:  0963810928
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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise

The Author's Introduction:
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.
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 the 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 book 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 book addresses.

Although the overall thrust is positive and exudes a "can do" spirit, the hurdles and misconceptions are treated honestly and seriously.  As a fourth-generation farmer with a deep legacy of alternatives thinkers on whose shoulders I stand, my advice may not be 100 percent correct, but it is tempered with lifetimes of wisdom.  This practical, dirt-under-the-fingernails information is desperately needed as thousands of city folks look for land roots, seek something better than a cubicle at the end of the freeway, and begin repopulating the countryside dehumanized by industrial agriculture.

Nothing makes a competitor more successful than intimate knowledge of the opponent's strengths and weaknesses.  My prayer is that You Can Farm will acquaint you with farming in ways you never imagined.  It should stimulate thoughts you never had before.  And it should awaken the dream within you in ways you never thought possible.

My goal is to empower you with new confidence, new vision and new direction.  While you may not have some of the personal qualities to embark on a farming career, a roadmap can make the journey far more possible.  I trust this book will inspire you with new hope.  Let's look at the map together.

Joel Salatin
July, 1998