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The growing season : how I built a new life-- and saved an American farm / Sarah Frey.

Summary:

The youngest of her parents' combined twenty-one children, Frey moved out of her family home and started her own fresh produce delivery business at fifteen. Two years later, when the family farm faced foreclosure, she took over the farm and started her own produce company there. Refusing to play by traditional rules, Frey talked her way into suit-filled boardrooms and made deals with the nation's largest retailers. Today her family-operated company, Frey Farms, has sold more than a billion dollars' worth of fresh produce, beverages, and consumer packaged goods, and has become one of America's largest fresh produce suppliers, with farmland spread across seven states. Here she tells how she literally dug her destiny out of the dirt. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

ISBN: 9780593129395
ISBN: 0593129393
Physical Description: xv, 251 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Social graces -- Hunting and fishing -- Growing wild -- Betting the farm -- Through the eyes of Jesus -- A proper education -- The melon route -- Chomping at the bit -- Taking the hill -- Frey Farms -- Seeds of hope -- Every which way -- Serious business -- On the road -- Hunting grounds -- Sunshine and rain -- Field run -- The family table -- Harvest time again.