Soil Sisters
A Toolkit for Women Farmers
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- $24.99
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- $24.99
Publisher Description
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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For those who have dreamed of relocating to the countryside and who possess two X chromosomes this multifaceted guide to organic farming is ideal. Author Kivirist (Rural Renaissance) is a former Chicagoan who became both a farmer and an advocate for female farmers everywhere. The aim of the book is to give them "the practical means needed to cultivate your dream farm livelihood," and Kivirist is serious about farming as a lifestyle. She divides the book into four parts that cover the history and ideology of women in farming, the trends and business practices behind organic agriculture, the practical basics to growing crops, and ways that female farmers can nurture their mental and physical well-being. Sprinkled throughout the book are "Idea Seeds" and "Tool Sheds" that provide agricultural advice as well as information about women-centered farming non-profits and other like organizations. The book also includes detailed photographs and biographies of women who are thriving as farmers, all based on Kivirist's belief that, "we have so much to learn and inspiration to draw from each other as women." This a richly detailed book with lots of useful advice, and any woman (or man, for that matter) interested in farming would do well to read it.
