Successful Farming's Building Guide for Farm and Home
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
Download Successful Farming's Building Guide for Farm and Home Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Successful Farmings Building Guide For Farm And Home PDF full book. Access full book title Successful Farmings Building Guide For Farm And Home.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ben Hartman |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1603585923 |
A practical, systems-based approach for a more sustainable farming operation To many people today, using the words "factory" and "farm" in the same sentence is nothing short of sacrilege. In many cases, though, the same sound business practices apply whether you are producing cars or carrots. Author Ben Hartman and other young farmers are increasingly finding that incorporating the best new ideas from business into their farming can drastically cut their wastes and increase their profits, making their farms more environmentally and economically sustainable. By explaining the lean system for identifying and eliminating waste and introducing efficiency in every aspect of the farm operation, The Lean Farm makes the case that small-scale farming can be an attractive career option for young people who are interested in growing food for their community. Working smarter, not harder, also prevents the kind of burnout that start-up farmers often encounter in the face of long, hard, backbreaking labor. Lean principles grew out of the Japanese automotive industry, but they are now being followed on progressive farms around the world. Using examples from his own family's one-acre community-supported farm in Indiana, Hartman clearly instructs other small farmers in how to incorporate lean practices in each step of their production chain, from starting a farm and harvesting crops to training employees and selling goods. While the intended audience for this book is small-scale farmers who are part of the growing local food movement, Hartman's prescriptions for high-value, low-cost production apply to farms and businesses of almost any size or scale that hope to harness the power of lean in their production processes.
Author | : Wallace Sheldon Moreland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Farmers Home Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Buildings |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Forrest Pritchard |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0762794380 |
With humor and pathos, Forrest Pritchard recounts his ambitious and often hilarious endeavors to save his family’s seventh-generation farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Through many a trial and error, he not only saves Smith Meadows from insolvency but turns it into a leading light in the sustainable, grass-fed, organic farm-to-market community. There is nothing young Farmer Pritchard won’t try. Whether he’s selling firewood and straw, raising free-range chickens and hogs, or acquiring a flock of Barbados Blackbelly sheep, his learning curve is steep and always entertaining. Pritchard’s world crackles with colorful local characters—farm hands, butchers, market managers, customers, fellow vendors, pet goats, policemen—bringing the story to warm, communal life. His most important ally, however, is his renegade father, who initially questions his son's career choice and eschews organic foods for the generic kinds that wreak havoc on his health. Soon after his father’s death, the farm becomes a recognized success and Pritchard must make a vital decision: to continue serving the local community or answer the exploding demand for his wares with lucrative Internet sales and shipping deals. More than a charming story of honest food cultivation and farmers’ markets, Gaining Ground tugs on the heartstrings, reconnecting us to the land and the many lives that feed us.
Author | : Edward Loomis Davenport Seymour |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1098 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Farmers Home Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Buildings |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William A. Radford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Farm buildings |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Farmers Home Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Rennie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |