--- product_id: 49260036 title: "The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land" price: "$48.38" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/49260036-the-urban-farmer-growing-food-for-profit-on-leased-borrowed store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # Intensive food production in small spaces Low capital investment & high profit potential Urban/suburban land repurposing for farming The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land **Price:** $48.38 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌿 Cultivate Profit & Purpose: Grow Green, Earn Green in the City! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land - **How much does it cost?** $48.38 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/49260036-the-urban-farmer-growing-food-for-profit-on-leased-borrowed) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Scalable Business Models:** Choose from five tailored farm startup models to fit your space, budget, and growth ambitions. - • **Local Food Movement Pioneer:** Grow fresh produce just blocks from your market, slashing transportation costs and boosting freshness. - • **Low Startup Costs, High Returns:** Start your farming venture with minimal overhead and infrastructure investment—perfect for savvy urban entrepreneurs. - • **Maximize Profit in Minimal Space:** Unlock high-value crop yields on leased or borrowed urban land with proven intensive techniques. - • **Eco-Friendly Urban Transformation:** Turn unproductive lawns into thriving, sustainable food hubs and join the future of localized agriculture. ## Overview The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, practical guide to making a profitable living by growing high-value crops intensively on small leased or borrowed urban and suburban land. It offers scalable business models, low startup costs, and strategies to tap into the booming local food movement, transforming underused lawns into productive, eco-friendly farms. ## Description Strategies and techniques for making a living with intensive food production in small spaces There are 40 million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land is a major barrier for many people who want to enter the agricultural sector, and urban and suburban yards have huge potential for would-be farmers wanting to become part of this growing movement. The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands-on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high-yield, high-value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's). Major benefits include: Low capital investment and overhead costs Reduced need for expensive infrastructure Easy access to markets. Growing food in the city means that fresh crops may travel only a few blocks from field to table, making this innovative approach the next logical step in the local food movement. Based on a scalable, easily reproduced business model, The Urban Farmer is your complete guide to minimizing risk and maximizing profit by using intensive production in small leased or borrowed spaces. Review: The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land - Great value for money, well written, easy to read , easy on the eyes, full of great information. As described. Delivery chap very polite and delivered on time. Excellent service. Review: If your wavering don't. Simply get the book its that good - Curtis Stone’s brilliant new book ‘The Urban Farmer’, is one of the most important contributions to Transition thinking over the last 10 years, and sets out in great depth and detail what that could look like. And he knows because he’s done it. The Urban Farmer is simultaneously deeply visionary and immensely practical, always a heady brew. “What if we could repurpose the suburbs to be the new frontier of localisation?” writes Stone. “What if all of these new suburban streets turned into areas for transition, reeducation and abundance? I believe this is not only a possibility but an inevitability”. As he points out, there is nothing new about growing food in cities, and nothing new about doing so commercially. For example, Paris was home to incredibly sophisticated fruit growing systems, and to market gardens who pioneered a system now referred to as “French Intensive”, which, until the 1920s, covered 6% of the land within the city limits. As Eliot Coleman put it in “The Winter Harvest Handbook” Perhaps the most inspiring, and powerful, part of the book is his “start-up farm models”. Here he sets out 5 different business models on different scales, what kind of initial investment you’d need and what kinds of return you might expect. You could start on a quarter of an acre or smaller, or go a bit bigger. For each he sets out the kinds of crops that could work well, and the kinds of profits you might expect. If your wavering don't. Simply get the book its that good ## Features - NEW SOCIETY ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 609,514 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 80 in Home Farming 399 in Urban Gardens 406 in Fruit Gardening | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,057 Reviews | ## Images ![The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/813QeWr3yML.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land *by A***E on 13 June 2024* Great value for money, well written, easy to read , easy on the eyes, full of great information. As described. Delivery chap very polite and delivered on time. Excellent service. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If your wavering don't. Simply get the book its that good *by M***P on 1 June 2018* Curtis Stone’s brilliant new book ‘The Urban Farmer’, is one of the most important contributions to Transition thinking over the last 10 years, and sets out in great depth and detail what that could look like. And he knows because he’s done it. The Urban Farmer is simultaneously deeply visionary and immensely practical, always a heady brew. “What if we could repurpose the suburbs to be the new frontier of localisation?” writes Stone. “What if all of these new suburban streets turned into areas for transition, reeducation and abundance? I believe this is not only a possibility but an inevitability”. As he points out, there is nothing new about growing food in cities, and nothing new about doing so commercially. For example, Paris was home to incredibly sophisticated fruit growing systems, and to market gardens who pioneered a system now referred to as “French Intensive”, which, until the 1920s, covered 6% of the land within the city limits. As Eliot Coleman put it in “The Winter Harvest Handbook” Perhaps the most inspiring, and powerful, part of the book is his “start-up farm models”. Here he sets out 5 different business models on different scales, what kind of initial investment you’d need and what kinds of return you might expect. You could start on a quarter of an acre or smaller, or go a bit bigger. For each he sets out the kinds of crops that could work well, and the kinds of profits you might expect. If your wavering don't. Simply get the book its that good ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best book I've bought this year *by J***H on 4 September 2019* Very follow on detail orientated when questions arised they were all answered in the following paragraph or page unlike some other books or read of late that weren't as complete , home producer only but I've cemented some lines of production and cutting others to minimise time and increase output to the fridge plate and freezer , follow Curtis on utube and he's more on point on everything it seems than most ## Frequently Bought Together - The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land - The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming - The New Organic Grower, 3rd Edition: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, 30th Anniversary Edition --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.us/products/49260036-the-urban-farmer-growing-food-for-profit-on-leased-borrowed](https://www.desertcart.us/products/49260036-the-urban-farmer-growing-food-for-profit-on-leased-borrowed) --- *Product available on Desertcart United States of America* *Store origin: US* *Last updated: 2026-07-12*