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The growing season : how I built a new life-- and saved an American farm  Cover Image Book Book

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

Frey, Sarah, (author.).

Summary:

The youngest of her parents' combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in Southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to Hollywood, Chicago -- or really anywhere with central heating. At fifteen, she moved out of her family home and started her own fresh produce delivery business with nothing more than an old pickup truck. Two years later, when the family farm faced inevitable foreclosure, Sarah gave up on her dreams of escape, and, at seventeen, took over the farm and started her own produce company there. Refusing to play by traditional rules, Sarah talked her way into suit-filled boardrooms, made deals with the nation's largest retailers, and became so legendary that the Harvard Business School published a case study on her negotiation skills. Today, Sarah's 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. This is the inspiring story of how a scrappy rural childhood gave Sarah the grit and resiliency to take risks that paid off in unexpected ways. Rather than leaving her community, Sarah found adventure and opportunity in one of the most forgotten parts of our country. With fearlessness and creativity, she literally dug her destiny out of the dirt.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593129395 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xv, 251 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2020]
Subject: Frey, Sarah.
Frey Farms.
Women farmers > United States > Biography.
Women chief executive officers > United States > Biorgaphy.
Produce trade > United States.
Agricultural industries > United States.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Stroud Branch 338.763092 Frey 31681010206670 NONFIC Available -


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