The Resource The growing season : how I built a new life-- and saved an American farm, Sarah Frey
The growing season : how I built a new life-- and saved an American farm, Sarah Frey
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Resource Information
The item The growing season : how I built a new life-- and saved an American farm, Sarah Frey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 10 library branches.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xv, 251 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593129395
- Label
- The growing season : how I built a new life-- and saved an American farm
- Title
- The growing season
- Title remainder
- how I built a new life-- and saved an American farm
- Statement of responsibility
- Sarah Frey
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Frey, Sarah
- Dewey number
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- 338.7/63092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HD9010.F74
- LC item number
- A3 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Frey, Sarah
- Frey Farms
- Women farmers
- Women chief executive officers
- Produce trade
- Agricultural industries
- Label
- The growing season : how I built a new life-- and saved an American farm, Sarah Frey
- Carrier category
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- Carrier category code
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- Carrier MARC source
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- Content category
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- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1128885964
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xv, 251 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593129395
- Lccn
- 2019048607
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o1128885964
- (OCoLC)1128885964
- Label
- The growing season : how I built a new life-- and saved an American farm, Sarah Frey
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1128885964
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xv, 251 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593129395
- Lccn
- 2019048607
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o1128885964
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