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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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