Essential Guide to Hobby Farming-A Business How-To Manual
$24.95
Regardless of the size of your “field of dreams,” The Essential Guide to Hobby Farming is your best first step to making that hobby-farm aspiration a pleasurable and profitable reality. A hobby farmer for the past thirty years, Carol Ekarius shares the joys, challenges, and rewards of living the rural life.
-Assessing finances and resources—land, water, tools of the trade (trucks, tractors, various implements)
-Choosing the best crops for your land, climate, hardiness, and profitability
-Selecting and caring for the livestock—chickens, goats, cows, sheep, etc.—that best fits your hobby farm
-Protecting crops and livestock against predators, pests, and disease
-Business and marketing options for selling your “local food” directly to restaurants and farmers’ markets and through CSA programs
-Preserving the harvest, through canning, drying, and freezing, plus over two dozen original recipes for your homegrown produce
Paperback, 304 Pages