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Sheep Sorrel Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Farming the Spirit In Welch, Minnesota, one woman finds a way to release physical energy that she cannot find in a classroom. Beth Slocum, a teacher at Mounds Park Academy, spends her summers on her farm and commutes to Welch to check on her flock several times a week during the school year. “As a […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Non-food ag-related, Non-GMO, Rotational Grazing, Sheep and goats, Textile Arts

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

Richard Bresnahan: Artist and Environmentalist

June 29, 2012 By admin

Master Potter Richard Bresnahan, a world-acclaimed potter and environmentalist, incorporates sustainable materials in his art, many of which are found in the nature that surrounds him and his family on their 120-acre homestead in Avon, Minnesota. It is here that Richard and his wife, Collete, teach their two daughters and young son about the importance […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - family, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Developing new products, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Pottery, Processing, Regional Arts, Sustainable Use, Value added, Visual Arts, Wood, clay and ash

Ruckman Mill Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Rugs and Roots on the Farm Augusta, West Virginia The Ruckman Mill Farm business recipe mixes traditional roots with contemporary times. Blending the historic American craft of rug hooking with wild plant harvesting and flower and herb gardens, this 29 acre farm in Augusta, West Virginia, provides a palette for the husband-wife team of Susan […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - family, Business to Business: Other, Direct Marketing, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Harvesting Nature, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Prairie Grasses & Wildflowers, Sunflowers, Textile Arts, West Virginia

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