The woman hobby farmer
Subtitle: female guidance for growing food, raising livestock, and building a farm-based business
By: Karen Lanier
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781620082607
Subjects: Small Farms; Farm management; Women farmers
Description: With females as one of the fastest growing sectors of the hobby-farming community, the time is right for practical advice and guidance from women to women. Written by naturalist, gardener, and farmer-in-training Karen Lanier, this insightful volume provides inspiration and direction for fellow females with agricultural aspirations. The Woman Hobby Farmer packs a lot of wisdom and experience into its pages, featuring interviews with and answers from a diverse group of women, including an organic farmer, a goat farmer, an urban farmer, an herbalist, a creator or a sustainable community and more.--Back cover.
Notes: Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Assessments; title: Taking care of your farm; title: Taking care of yourself; title: Harvest and share the bounty; title: Good teacher, good student; title: Lessons learned; title: Integrating farm and life.