The Urban Farmer

Publisher's Summary

There are 20 million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land is a major barrier for many people who want to enter the agricultural sector, and urban and suburban yards have huge potential for would-be farmers wanting to become part of this growing movement.

The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands-on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high-yield, high-value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's). Major benefits include:

• Low capital investment and overhead costs

  Reduced need for expensive infrastructure

  Easy access to markets

Growing food in the city means that fresh crops may travel only a few blocks from field to table, making this innovative approach the next logical step in the local food movement. Based on a scalable, easily reproduced business model, The Urban Farmer is your complete guide to minimizing risk and maximizing profit by using intensive production in small leased or borrowed spaces.

Curtis Stone is the owner/operator of Green City Acres, a commercial urban farm growing vegetables for farmers markets, restaurants, and retail outlets. During his slower months, Curtis works as a public speaker, teacher, and consultant, sharing his story to inspire a new generation of farmers.

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A dry telling of some great information.

The book itself is very inspiring. The narrorator
just has this lulling rythmic tone that can put you to sleep.

5 of 5 people found this review helpful

Great content - Horrible Narrator

I will be avoiding this narrator in the future. It was hard to concentrate with the inflection patterns at the end of each sentence. Like a monotone Vespa.

Great content, though! Very informative.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Great book!!!!!<br />

Planing to start my own business and this is very important to know the basics .
Very good book.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Inspiration

Excellent book for people who want to grow food for profit living in urban and suburban cities. This man changed the way I was thinking about doing agriculture, from acres to just with the small available space, be it indoor or outdoor.

Excellent. learned a lot

this is an excellent book. so much great information. I'll need to listen to it again to soak it all in. but gives me some good information to start thinking about as I plan some gardening for personal use and profit.

Excellent book must read

Very detailed and good content. One of the best gardening books i have read with many advices i could use,even if i live at different zone.

Very detailed

Having watched quite a bit of Curtis’ YouTube content, this was a full collection of what he provides there. Very, very beneficial information.

Useful!

I've been a long time hobby food-gardener and at times farm-hand and I picked up more than a few new gold nuggets of useful information from this book.

Dam good book

The Urban Farmer is a Dam good book. You would not be disappointed in this book.

Inspirational

Curtis is very practical in all his advice. He gets into the day to day details necessary to operate a small farm as a business. This year I am starting my own market garden. I have twenty acres of beautiful land in the San Joaquin Valley of California. With the wisdom found in this book I hope to get the most out of each acre.

Fantastic Insightful Guide to GYO

Diego Footer who narrated the book is well known in the world of growing your own food so to have him read this book was fitting and worked well.
I've watched many of Curtis' videos online and how to's, but to have a book full of brilliant tried and tested techniques as well as inside market information, it's the perfect book for anyone wanting to get into growing and selling fruit and vegetables. Highly recommend!!!