The growing season : how I built a new life--and saved an American farm
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Bloomfield Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
338.76 Frey
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Dansville Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
338.7 FRE
1 available
Palmyra Community Library - Adult Biography
92 FREY
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Bloomfield Public Library - Adult Nonfiction338.76 FreyAvailable
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Palmyra Community Library - Adult Biography92 FREYAvailable
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xv, 251 pages ; 24 cm
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"One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business--without ever leaving the land she loved. 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. Thanks to the millions of melons and pumpkins she sells annually, Sarah has been dubbed "America's Pumpkin Queen" by the national press. The Growing Season tells 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"--,Provided by publisher

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Frey, S. (2020). The growing season: how I built a new life--and saved an American farm (First edition.). Ballantine Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Frey, Sarah. 2020. The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life--and Saved an American Farm. New York: Ballantine Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Frey, Sarah. The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life--and Saved an American Farm New York: Ballantine Books, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Frey, Sarah. The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life--and Saved an American Farm First edition., Ballantine Books, 2020.

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