Product 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. Review "I wish all my neighbors were SOIL SISTERS - better farmers, better food, better fellowship - what's not to love? Appreciating and leveraging women's distinctives, Soil Sisters empowers and guides feminine farmers to full expression. A truly wonderful guidebook." - Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm"Reading these pages feels more like sitting across from Lisa and friends at a kitchen table, where you quickly come to realize that every female farmer was once an apprehensive beginner and that you're not alone - you are among sisters." - MaryJane Butters, MaryJanes Farm, from the Foreword"Lisa Kivirist's Soil Sisters is a book with perfect timing. The past seven hundred years of settler colonialism have worked to crush women's knowledge of farming and agriculture. But knowledge is hard to kill. It lives in first nations, in urban gardens and, nurtured by the soil of her farm, on the pages of Lisa's book. With more and more young women looking for a future on the farm, this book couldn't be more timely or useful. Buy it along with your first shovel and hat." - Raj Patel, author, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System "This isn't a "how-to-farm" book; there are plenty of books out there on raising sheep or growing garlic. Instead, Soil Sisters provides something much more valuable - support and encouragement and concrete tips for those women courageous enough to step into a new life as a farmer. Kivirist brings together a chorus of voices so powerful that it's like being surrounded by women neighbors willing to lend a hand. Their voices - and what they've learned - get me excited about farming all over again." - Catherine Friend, author, Hit by a Farm and Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet "This isn't your grandma's view of farming anymore. Soil Sisters sheds light on the new wave of women farmers. From growers to entrepreneurs, from the fields and inside kitchens; this must-have book has anecdotes, advice, tips and stories for women who want to start a business, learn a craft, or dare to dream big. If that's you, this book is for you." - Karen Washington, Founder, Black Urban Growers; and farmer & co-owner, Rise&Root Farm"All over the globe, women farmers and gardeners are leading the way to healthier lives and landscapes. Soil Sisters celebrates the critical role they play in putting good food on the world's table while offering a hearty serving of information and inspiration for the next generation of female growers." - Roger Doiron, Founding Director, Kitchen Gardeners International"This book is just what's needed to inspire women new to farming, and it's a great read for those who have been farming for years. The book is full of real life stories, and L

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