Building A Sustainable Business (SARE) is a comprehensive guide to developing business plans for ag businesses. Developed by the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture for both beginning and experienced rural entrepreneurs, the guide helps alternative and sustainable agriculture entrepreneurs create profitable enterprises.
Sample worksheets help to foster practical perspective and illustrate how real farm families set goals, researched processing alternatives, determined potential markets, and evaluated financing options for their business planning.
Blank worksheets help the reader develop a detailed, lender-ready business plan or map out strategies to take advantage of new opportunities.
Available on the SARE website as a free pdf or as a printed publication.
Also available in an abbreviated Spanish version developed by the University of Missouri.