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02903aam a2200337 i 4500 001 9AD311CAD57A11EBB1025BD44AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210625010011 007 n 008 191120s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2019048608 020 $a 0593129407 020 $a 9780593129401 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Frey, Sarah,. 245 14 $a The growing season : $b how I saved an American farm--and built a new life / $c Sarah Frey. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Ballantine Books, $c [2020] 300 $a 1 online resource. 520 $a "One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business--without ever leaving the land she loved. 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. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to Hollywood, Chicago--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, Sarah gave up on her dreams of escape, and, at seventeen, took over the farm and started her own produce company there. Refusing to play by traditional rules, Sarah talked her way into suit-filled boardrooms, made deals with the nation's largest retailers, and became so legendary that the Harvard Business School published a case study on her negotiation skills. Today, Sarah's family-operated company, Frey Farms, has sold more than a billion dollars' worth of fresh produce, beverages, and consumer packaged goods, and has become one of America's largest fresh produce suppliers, with farmland spread across seven states. Thanks to the millions of melons and pumpkins she sells annually, Sarah 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 Sarah the grit and resiliency to take risks that paid off in unexpected ways. Rather than leaving her community, Sarah 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20210413. 600 1 $a Frey, Sarah. 610 2 $a Frey Farms. 650 $a Women chief executive officers $z United States $v Biorgaphy. 650 $a Agricultural industries $z United States. 650 $a Women farmers $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a Produce trade $z United States. 710 $a Frey, Sarah., $d First edition. 941 $a 1 952 $l D3PA284 $d 20210625010136.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9AD311CAD57A11EBB1025BD44AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search