![]() ![]() ![]() Refusing to play by traditional rules, at seventeen she began talking her way into suit-filled boardrooms, making deals with the nation's largest retailers. Two years later, when the family farm faced inevitable foreclosure, Frey gave up on her dreams of escape, took over the farm, and created her own produce company. 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. ![]() She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to the big city-or really anywhere with central heating. "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. ![]()
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