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Innovative growers create additional income through unconventional channels. These selections might contain the keys to added prosperity for you.
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Transitioning to Organic Dairy WB
This workbook evaluates whether organic dairy is a good option and introduces many of the requirements needed to implement a successful transition. This wb is designed to be used with the companion book, The Organic Dairy Handbook.

The Farmstead Creamery Advisor
This book goes far beyond the issues of caring for livestock and basic cheesemaking and into the real business of successfully creating high-quality, handmade artisanal cheeses right on the farm.

The Organic Dairy Handbook
This whole-farm management resource is essential for farmers interested in organic production and those transitioning from conventional to organic dairy production.

The Organic Farming Manual
The know-how to prepare beginning farmers for organic food production or experienced farmers making the transition from traditional farming techniques.

The Sheer Ecstasy of Being A Lunatic Farmer
50 years of being a “lunatic” farmer, Joel Salatin has plenty of reflective and humorous stories to tell about his beloved Polyface Farm and in defense of a more localized, diversified food system -- ammunition to combat conventional farming naysayers.

A Farmer's Guide to the Bottom Line
Planning to implementation of business practices for family-scale farms.

Rebirth of the Small Family Farm
Complete handbook for starting a CSA.

Small Farms Are Real Farms
In this collection of essays by one of America's most eloquent and influential proponents of sustainable agriculture, the multifaceted case for small farms is built using logic and facts.

The Potential of Herbs as a Cash Crop
Herb growing, processing, marketing.

Alcohol Can Be A Gas
This is the most comprehensive text on alcohol production and use ever written.

All Flesh Is Grass
The pleasures and promises of pasture farming.

American Farmstead Cheese
The complete guide to making and selling artisan cheeses.

Backyard Market Gardening
Entrepreneur's guide to selling what you grow.

Building A Sustainable Business
A guide to developing a business plan for farms and rural business

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal
From a lifetime of noncompliance, frustration, humor, and passion come the behind-the-scenes real stories that have brought this little family farm into the forefront of the non-industrial food system.

Family Friendly Farming
Polyface Farm's Joel Salatin shares his farm-based family enterprise.

Farm Fresh
A guide for graziers to increase their income by direct marketing.

Fresh Grown Customer Communications in Print
Direct mail, newsletters, & brochures: build customer loyalty & attract more customers

Fresh Grown Customer Communications on the World Wide Web
Focusing on customer communications using the new tools of electronic newsletters and websites.

Fresh Grown Publicity
An easy guide to getting news coverage, even if you know nothing about public relations or writing!

Grassfed to Finish
Grassfed to Finish shows producers how to create a consistently tender, flavorful, gourmet grass-fed product all year long.

Grassroots Marketing
Gives tools for marketing success.

Growing & Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal & Other Woodland Medicinals
Rising interest in native herbs prompted full-time ginseng grower Dr. W. Scott Persons and horticulturalist Dr. Jeanine M. Davis to combine their expertise to create this practical guide to the cultivation of woodland botanicals.

Growing & Selling Fresh-Cut Herbs
Turn your hobby into a fulfilling career.


Transitioning to Organic Dairy WB

Holy Cows and Hog Heaven
The food buyers guide to farm friendly food.

Holy Cows and Hog Heaven (CASE)
The food buyers guide to farm friendly food.

How to Direct Market Your Beef
Shows how one ranching couple used their family's ranch to launch a profitable operation.

How To Keep Your Classic Tractor Alive
If you are using your tractor to help on the farm. compete in the local pulls, or for show, this book has everything that you'll need to know to keep it in perfect running condition.

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered.

Knowledge Rich Ranching
How to financially succeed in the cattle business today.

Land Livestock & Life
A Grazier's Guide to Finance shows how to separate land from livestock businesses, make money on leased land by custom grazing, and how to create a quality lifestyle on the farm.

Making Your Small Farm Profitable
Small farm management, developing new markets.

Management-Intensive Grazing
The grassroots of grass farming.

Micro Eco-Farming
Restore the planet and produce unheard-of amounts of healthy products.

No Risk Ranching
Custom grazing on leased land.

Raising Earthworms for Profit
A multi-million dollar market.

Recycle with Earthworms
The red wiggler connection.

Rural Renaissance
Renewing the quest for the good life.

Sharing the Harvest
How-to manual for creating & growing a CSA.

Sustainable Vegetable Production From Start-up to Market
To help growers plan & manage vegetable production systems.

The Legal Guide for Direct Farm Marketing
Professor of Law & Director of Agricultural Law Center details legal issues.

The New Agritourism
Fun, profitable ways to host the community and tourists on your farm.

The New Farmers' Market
Starting, managing, & promoting the market.

The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook
Contrary to popular belief, a good living can be made on an organic farm. What’s required is farming smarter, not harder.

The Transition Document
Subtitled, Toward a Biologically Resilient Agriculture, with insightful discussion on the research and discoveries of innovative people who have shaped the course of biologically resilient agriculture over the last 30 years.











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