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Elk Falls Pottery Works and Sherman House Bed & Breakfast

June 29, 2012 By admin

Getting Mugged in a Living Ghost Town Elk Falls, Kansas Less than two hours southeast of Wichita, Kansas, and surrounded by thousands of acres of pasture and ranch lands, Elk Falls – population 120 – could have fallen off the map and become a ghost town. But it didn’t — thanks, in part, to Elk […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Bed & Breakfast, Business - family, Hospitality, Kansas, Pottery, Tourism and Recreation, Visual Arts

Titus Mill Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

The Buzz of Bees and Blades Pennington, NJ Steve and Joyce George of Titus Mill Farm in Pennington, New Jersey, believe business plans should allow for — even encourage — a healthy dose of serendipity. By keeping open to opportunities and taking advantage of niche markets, the Georges’ business blends timber products and bee-keeping with […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business Development – Harvesting Nature specifi, Business planning, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Forestry, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, New Jersey, Wood, clay and ash

Three Sisters Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Bioshelter Farmers Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania Their 2,500 square foot bioshelter — a structure containing a mini-ecosystem that supports the growth of a plethora of ingredients that go into their popular salad blends — makes more money than a comparable field of hay or corn ever could. Located on the five acre Three Sisters Farm inSandy […]

Filed Under: Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Community Supported Agriculture, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Education, Energy and Green Building, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Learning, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), On-Farm Visits, Organic farming, Passive Solar Design, Pennsylvania, Permaculture, Renewable Energy, Solar, Sustainable Use, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vegetables

Star Haven Farms

June 29, 2012 By admin

Growing a Business on Grass Iola, Texas The adage “Necessity is the mother of all invention” proved true for Ray and Karen Hadaway of Star Haven Farms in Iola, Texas. “When we started five years ago, we simply didn’t have the money to buy the quantities of grain feed needed to raise beef cattle to […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Human Health, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Poultry, Sheep and goats, Texas, Word-of-Mouth

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