• The Urban Farmer

  • Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land
  • By: Curtis Allen Stone
  • Narrated by: Diego Footer
  • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (189 ratings)

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The Urban Farmer

By: Curtis Allen Stone
Narrated by: Diego Footer
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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.

©2015 New Society Publishers (P)2017 WCP Media

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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.

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Narrator Almost Ruins Amazing Content

I love Curtis Stone’s YouTube channel. He’s an excellent speaker which is why I’m so disappointed he didn’t narrate this book himself. The chosen narrator is so bad ...I hope I can make it through what I’m certain is excellent content. At three chapters in I literally have to stop every so often to get a rest from the monotonous dirge that is this narrator’s style. The first inflection came in chapter THREE! I had to stop and celebrate!

A narrator is important in helping communicate the authors meaning, excitement and passion... all of which is missing here. This review should be about the great content in Curtis’s book. Instead it’s a bit of a rant about the nearly robotic voice in charge of disseminating these great ideas and plowing then under in the process... yes, a gardening reference. It makes you work way too hard. While I adore audio books and listen while I drive... I think I’d have to recommend getting this book and reading it yourself...

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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.

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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.

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Great book!!!!!

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

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One of the Top Farm Business Books

Great advice for a profitable small farm business. Less useful if you are just trying to just garden/homestead/hobby farm, etc. His web sites has more updated info.

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Fantastic

Tons of absolutely valuable information, with different ways and methods to accomplishing objectives. I will have to reference back to multiple chapters for the wealth of knowledge.

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urban farms in urban wastlands

good book, great practical and economical breakdown of small plot farming

if the empire ever shifts their "pandemic" control operation into another form of tyranny that allows for restaurants and farmers markets to return to reality then maybe the usefulness of this book will be reestablished.

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Great listen ...

I really enjoyed this book. It was a great listen. Look forward to implementing some of the ideas on my own farm.

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excellent

A must read for gardeners and farmers alike, as well as those looking for positive social and environmental development.

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