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Gaining ground : a story of farmers' markets, local food, and saving the family farm / Forrest Pritchard.

by Pritchard, Forrest.

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Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, 2013.

Pritchard, Forrest.

Farmers -- Virginia -- Biography.

Farmers' markets.

9780762787258 (pbk.)

xvi, 320 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

"With humor and pathos, Forrest Pritchard recounts his ambitious and often hilarious endeavors to save his family’s seventh-generation farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Through many a trial and error, he not only saves Smith Meadows from insolvency but turns it into a leading light in the sustainable, grass-fed, organic farm-to-market community. There is nothing young Farmer Pritchard won’t try. Whether he’s selling firewood and straw, raising free-range chickens and hogs, or acquiring a flock of Barbados Blackbelly sheep, his learning curve is steep and always entertaining. Pritchard’s world crackles with colorful local characters--farm hands, butchers, market managers, customers, fellow vendors, pet goats, policemen--bringing the story to warm, communal life."--From publisher.

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