
The Growing Season (Hardcover)
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The Growing Season (Hardcover)
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- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- Publication dateAugust, 2020
- Pages272
- EditionStandard Edition
- Original languagesEnglish
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"A gutsy success story" (The New York Times Book Review) about one tenacious woman's journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business--without ever leaving the land she loves 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 alongside her brothers. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to the big city--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, Frey gave up on her dreams of escape, took over the farm, and created her own produce company. Refusing to play by traditional rules, at seventeen she began talking her way into suit-filled boardrooms, making deals with the nation's largest retailers. Her early negotiations became so legendary that Harvard Business School published some of her deals as case studies, which have turned out to be favorites among its students. Today, her family-operated company, Frey Farms, has become one of America's largest fresh produce growers and shippers, with farmland spread across seven states. Thanks to the millions of melons and pumpkins she sells annually, Frey 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 Frey the grit and resiliency to take risks that paid off in unexpected ways. Rather than leaving her community, she 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.
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Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
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Biography & Memoirs, Political & Social Sciences
Publication date
August, 2020
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Mar 24, 2021
Joe
5 out of 5 stars review
A must-read!!!
The Growing Season is a must-read!!! Wow, Sarah Frey is a Midwestern girl with a whole lotta moxie. She has such an energetic, outgoing and likable personality that draws you into her amazing book. It's equal parts captivating, heartbreaking, incredible and hilarious. It was such a pleasure to be invited in Sarah's memoir. It's filled with life - and it leaps off the pages. Ensure you don't have to be somewhere when you start this because it's just too good to put down...
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