Bøker av Randy James

Starting a service business is a work of art. Whether the intention is for it to remain a practice or to be scaled, the creation takes the whole person- left brain, right brain and soul.What is going on in the mind of a person when the desire to go-it-alone takes hold?Where do you start? When do you start? How do you start?What obstacles and struggles can one expect?In a conversational style, the author shares his small business journey in landscape contracting in a simple and vulnerable way. The hope being it might spark the next entrepreneur to dream of a way to meet both their personal needs and the market place.Or it may inspire an existing small business owner to take their business to another level.Either way, the world will be better for what they create.

Agriculture continues to be the largest industry in the US with over 2.2 million farms. Amazingly, well over 100,000 new small family farms have sprung up in the past few years . . . and almost no one noticed. Why Cows Need Names follows one young Amish family as they dream about and then struggle to establish a profitable and quintessentially American small farm.

An agricultural extension agent for twenty years, Randy James works closely with the Amish farmers of Geauga County, Ohio, the fourth largest Amish settlement in the world, and his narrative provides information on the art, science, and tradition of farming as well as an alternative business model for small traditional farms.