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Forrest Pritchard Talks Business in Sustainable Farming

Forrest Pritchard, Gaining Ground

In his memoir, Gaining Ground, Forrest Pritchard touches on the harsh realities of market competition and the need for businesses to abandon the business-as-usual paradigm in order to compete. Sharing outsider perspectives of growing and maintaining a healthy business — insights learned from hard-won success beyond the mainstream — Forrest focuses on the concepts of Practice, Perspective, and Vision and explains how even billion dollar companies can take their cues from small farms and achieve sustainable growth for decades to come.

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Forrest Pritchard Shares Sustainable Farming Ideas at Dickinson College

Every year, Dickinson College hosts a Local Food Dinner where students and community residents attend a lecture while enjoying a specially prepared meal. This year, at the 12th annual dinner, Virginia farmer and author Forrest Pritchard was the entertaining and topical keynote speaker. Pritchard, author of Gaining Ground, detailed the idea of sustainable farming, a concept that […]

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Books Reviews

BIC reviews, Wool, by Hugh Howey; Gaining Ground, by Forrest Pritchard and The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande.

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Forrest Pritchard’s Gaining Ground Picked as Top Food Book of 2013!

In their recent round up of the best cookbooks and food books of 2013, The Washington Post has selected Forrest Pritchard’s Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmer’s Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm among their favorites! Forrest Prtichard’s efforts to save his family farm, chronicled in Gaining Ground, includes hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters. The crash-course in sustainable agriculture offers both foodies and wold-be farmers wonderful insight into the food-to-farm-to-table business that will make readers rethink how they cruise through their local grocery store.

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Forrest Pritchard, author of Gaining Ground featured in Parade

Do family farms still matter? That’s the question taken up by ParadeI this week in their feature of Forest Pritchard, author of Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm. Forrest Pritchard recounts his experiences on his own family farm, Smith Meadows, and how after seventeen years of both triumph and heartbreak, his business is stronger than ever. Even so, Forrest Pritchard reminds us that high-yield industrial agriculture still dominates the field. Only 1% of the country still lives on a farm, as opposed to 50% just two generation ago. Forrest Pritchard urges Americans to ask what they value about their food, and where it comes from, with hope that a new wave of farmers dedicated to sustainable agriculture can give us all better choices at the grocery store.

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Forrest Pritchard, Author of Gaining Ground featured in LA Times

The artisanal movement in the United States has become something of an anthropological trend. It’s composed and driven by a preference for things hand made, relatively raw and untransformed, and most of all, a desire for authenticity. In a recent article in the LA Times, Forrest Pritchard’s new memoir, Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmer’s Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm, is featured as a voice in the new food movement, which holds as a primary precept that an actual human being had a hand in making what we put in our mouths. While Forrest Pritchard relates his learning experience in becoming an artisan farmer in Gaining Ground (beef, chickens and eggs, pigs, lamb and for a brief, hilarious time, goats), he’s also teaching us about what the business of artisanship is really about.

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Forrest Pritchard’s Memoir tops NPR’s Splendid Table List for Summer Reading

Splendid Table, NPR’s culinary culture and lifestyle program, has just released their list of 6 food books for summer reading – – and Forrest Pritchard’s Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm was at the top! Listen to Russ Parson, food editor and columnist at the Los Angeles […]

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Welcome Forrest Pritchard, author of Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm

“At long last, sustainable farming has finally arrived,” says Forrest Pritchard, author of Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm. Pritchard saved his own family farm by turning it into an ethical and profitable way to make a living. Recently named as one of Publisher’s Weekly Best Summer […]

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