Your Herb Shop

Product Description

Practical advice on budgets, locations, business plans, bookkeeping, staffing, inventory, and pricing. Case histories of 50 thriving herb businesses. Additional topics include developing products, packaging, special events, and methods for expanding.

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Product Details

Publisher	Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN	0882666126
Format	Paperback
Author	Bertha Reppert
EAN	9780882666129
Label	Storey Publishing, LLC
Dewey Decimal Number	635.7068
Studio	Storey Publishing, LLC
Number Of Pages	192
Title	Growing Your Herb Business
Publication Date	1994-01-07
Manufacturer	Storey Publishing, LLC

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Customer Reviews

Indispensable

Review by K. Albeck, 2009-09-08

This book is deservedly considered a classic. Though fifteen-plus years old, this advice is based upon Reppert's experience with people, plants and products, and so isn't dependent upon market conditions for its relevance and usefulness. Easy to read, widely applicable.

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Great book! Great advice!

Review by J. Knutson, 2008-03-10

Bertha Ruppert gives down to earth, tried and true advice about starting your own herb business. It's an easy read of every aspect of growing a business. Even though I have owned my own small business, I gained new and innovative ideas that could apply to almost any small retail store.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book and will be rereading it many times in the future.

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No thyme like the present to start your herb business

Review by E. A. Lovitt, 2006-10-18

"Growing Your Herb Business" is a quick, chatty read consisting of herb talk (25%) and business talk (75%). I loved the anecdotal information about different herbal start-up businesses, even though much of it sounded like ad copy, and when the author got to talking about herbs, it was like chatting with an old neighbor over the fence:

"My Aunt Bertha went to her grave with jet black hair thanks to the sage dye bath she boiled in an old iron skillet. I tried her trick and, by Jove, it also cleans the skillet."

Thanks to this book, I now know why my rosemary topiaries keep dying, how to plant mint so it doesn't take over the whole garden plot, and how to start tarragon (NOT from seed).

Do not expect too much detail about herbs--only the top thirteen (a baker's dozen) are discussed in any detail. There's also none of that fuzzy New Age business about cutting veronica in the dark of the moon and putting in your true love's mead. This author is primarily a businesswoman:

"'Oh Rosetta,' I protested, 'you'll never make money this way.' 'But I'm so happy,' was the soft reply."

Rosetta didn't have a business plan, didn't pay attention to marketing her product, labeling her herbs, and restocking them. Basically, she had a hobby that she enjoyed, not a business.

This book has got literally hundreds of tips on how to make your herbal business a success. If you just grow herbs for your own enjoyment, Bertha and her friends still have a lot of great information for you in this book. You might even want to try boiling a few sage leaves in your skillet after you read it.

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Tried and True Examples of What Works & What Doesn't

Review by Sophie, 2005-09-04

The author clearly demonstrates her early years of establishing her herb business and shares with us what has worked for her and what has not. It is a lessons learned oriented view point. She offers guidelines, stories of others who have started their herb businesses, samples of worksheets, tax considerations and many other practical elements that are worth noting when looking to start a herb business. This book is definitely a keeper and to have as a reference material.

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Starting your own business

Review by Tiffin A. Mabry, 2005-08-30

I am thinking about starting a business with herbs. This book has been easy to read and understand. It was full of information that will let me contact other people for further information. The book was also full of titles of other books that were equaly a good.
I would recommend this book to anyone starting a business.

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