The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life--and Saved an American Farm

“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 anywhe...