Lasting Links In 1990 a group of farmers, social justice activists and local church members got together at the first Local Changes for Global Solutions Conference. The goal of the conference was to provide a forum for discussion of environmental, peace, and justice issues while initiating lasting links between urban and rural communities. Out of […]
Elk Falls Pottery Works and Sherman House Bed & Breakfast
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 […]
Angelic Organics
Over One Thousand Customer Accounts Caledonia, IL About 75 miles from the booming metropolis of Chicago, Angelic Organics grows a dizzying array of vegetables and herbs on about 25 acres of the entire 90-acre farm. Their fresh vegetables and herbs are sold directly to over 1,000 customers who buy Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares in […]
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 […]
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