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Under the Big Tent

June 29, 2012 By admin

Now in its twenty-second year, Big Top Chautauqua is a renewal of the historical traveling chautauqua, meant to educate and entertain with lectures, vaudeville shows and musicians. The Big Top’s mission to “enhance cultural opportunities and create a sense of community and connection to the life and history of the Upper Midwest” has supported founder […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Wisconsin

Zuni Furniture Enterprises

June 29, 2012 By admin

Where Tradition Meets Quality Zuni, New Mexico · By David Seibert Zuni Furniture Enterprises has a slightly different take on the bottom line than a typical business. For this company, while economic concerns are important, cultural principles also guide the work. Zuni Furniture Enterprises, located at Zuni Pueblo in northwest New Mexico, has been a […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - small (<20 employees), Conservation, Conservation Aim, Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Forest Preservation and Restoration, New Mexico, SW book

Wildwood Rustic Furnishings

June 29, 2012 By admin

North Woods Life Duane Shoup is a furniture-maker who lives north of Itasca State Park in Moose Creek Township in northern Minnesota. Duane, who moved to the North Woods from metropolitan northern Indiana, says, “I can have my boat in Lake Itasca in thirty minutes. It’s a beautiful place to live but a tough place […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - self, Developing new products, Forest Saplings, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Northern Minnesota, Processing, Textile Arts, Value added, Visual Arts

White Earth Land Recovery Project

June 29, 2012 By admin

Culturally Whole White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP), distributes traditional foods like maple syrup, hominy corn and wild rice through its retail arm, Native Harvest, working together to make a fractured culture whole. In an old farmhouse near Round Lake, 12 miles from the village of Ponsford on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Children, Families and Learning, Cultural Preservation, Development of Website, Educational Opportunities, Energy and Green Building, Language and Cultural Heritage, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Program - community, Renewable Energy, Reservation, Schooling, Solar, Value added, Wind

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