Our Youth, Our Future On the tail end of the Flathead Reservation, the town of Arlee nestles in the Jocko Valley of Montana’s Mission Mountains. While many small towns suffer from a slowing inertia, Arlee residents are bringing new life to their community through innovative initiatives. From Chocolate Festivals to art mentoring, Arlee residents are […]
Nesenkeag Cooperative Farm
Fresh, Local and Organic Food For All Litchfield, New Hampshire On one 65 acre farm in Litchfield, New Hampshire, some of the richest and most fertile land in the United States supports the growth of diversified niche food crops — seventy in all, but especially the eagerly awaited pea tendrils and salad greens — that […]
Jones Family Farms
Harnessing Customers to Bring in the Harvest Shelton, Connecticut Hailed as one of the outstanding reasons to visit New England by Yankee Magazine, you don’t need to be a farmer to appreciate what the Jones Family Farms — owned by Terry and Jean Jones along with their son, Jamie and his wife Christiana — has […]
Tumbleweed Tours: Sharing rural Nebraska, one tour bus at a time
Sometimes business opportunity blooms right outside your doorstep, down the local county road and back up the gravel road you’ve driven over a thousand times. Such is the case with Tumbleweed Tours, a tourism venture in rural southeast Nebraska launched by Victoria Lipovsky and Kelly Kahman, a pair of farm women who aren’t short on […]