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

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

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The growing season

Oclc number

1128885964

Responsibility statement

Sarah Frey

Sub title

how I built a new life-- and saved an American farm

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

Table Of Contents

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

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How I built a new life-- and saved an American farm

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