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Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers

Lisa Kivirist
4.9/5 (13471 ratings)
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Description: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 and field operations. Key topics include:Finding your niche: mid-life encore careers, young and beginning, Boomerangs, and more From concept to crop: diversified farm start-up basics Resources, grants, and loans available especially for women farmers."Soil Sisters" also contains case studies, inspirational ideas, and savvy advice nuggets from over one hundred 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.Lisa Kiviristis Senior Fellow, Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and a national advocate for women in sustainable agriculture. She founded and directs the Rural Women's Project of the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service, an award-winning initiative championing female farmers and food-based entrepreneurs. Together with her husband, John Ivanko, Lisa is co-author of "Homemade for Sale, Farmstead Chef, ECOpreneuring," and "Rural Renaissance." Lisa and her family run Inn Serendipity Farm and Bed & Breakfast, completely powered by the wind and sun in the rolling green hills of southern Wisconsin."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers. To get started finding Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
256
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Release
2016
ISBN
1771421975

Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers

Lisa Kivirist
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: 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 and field operations. Key topics include:Finding your niche: mid-life encore careers, young and beginning, Boomerangs, and more From concept to crop: diversified farm start-up basics Resources, grants, and loans available especially for women farmers."Soil Sisters" also contains case studies, inspirational ideas, and savvy advice nuggets from over one hundred 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.Lisa Kiviristis Senior Fellow, Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and a national advocate for women in sustainable agriculture. She founded and directs the Rural Women's Project of the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service, an award-winning initiative championing female farmers and food-based entrepreneurs. Together with her husband, John Ivanko, Lisa is co-author of "Homemade for Sale, Farmstead Chef, ECOpreneuring," and "Rural Renaissance." Lisa and her family run Inn Serendipity Farm and Bed & Breakfast, completely powered by the wind and sun in the rolling green hills of southern Wisconsin."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers. To get started finding Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
256
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Release
2016
ISBN
1771421975

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