About this ebook
Fine tuning her growing practices on the family farm, Ruth Linton has focused on fruit that is beneficial for growers on 3 acres or less. With decades of experience in direct-to-consumer sales, she walks the growers through how to grow, how to harvest at the correct time, how to store and for how long, and then how to sell these unusual fruits for a good profit.
By minimizing the labor required to grow and maintain the fruit, the farmer can then improve profits with sales that benefit the farm and the customer. Harvest for Profit is ideal for young farmers just starting out or for established farmers who want to expand into more productive growing.
This is a practical guide to taking steps to increase the profit for the small farm.
Harvest for Profit’s goal: Grow more profit with fewer work hours.
About the author
Ruth Linton is living proof that small family farms can be profitable. She is the 6th generation of her family to grow crops and to sell from the family farm in Delaware. Ruth has worked in every facet of the farm, from planting to weeding to harvesting to sales to marketing. She has a passion for teaching farmers how to be profitable on small farms. After transforming her family’s farm into a farm that currently supports three generations of the family, Ruth is sharing this knowledge with others who want to be profitable on their own farms.
Thousands of customers over the past twenty-five years attest to the success of these growing and sales methods. Ruth has coached individuals in how to grow; now she shares her expertise with you. Ruth brings her decades of experience, enthusiasm for embracing change, and love of growing to writing about crops that have proven consistently profitable. She and her family farm on land that has been part of the homestead since 1832 in Wilmington, Delaware.
