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Embracing Opportunity

June 29, 2012 By admin

Embracing Opportunity Topping the hill on the road leading into the coastal town of La Push — home of the Quileute people — you will be struck by the breathtaking vista stretching out before your eyes: cobalt blue water, white surf and emerald green forest. Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and Olympic National Park, and […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Literary Arts, Mentoring Programs, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Washington, Youth, Youth Leadership

Petalland

June 29, 2012 By admin

Petalland: Blooms provide business opportunity Tullahoma, Tennessee “The name ‘Petalland’ came from a nickname a friend gave our farm because I would always have so many flowers, both growing in the garden and in vases all over the house,” explains owner and grower Karen Yasui with a smile. Petalland exemplifies how one person’s passionate hobby […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business to Business: Other, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic farming, Processing, Tennessee, Value added

Rural America Arts Partnership

June 29, 2012 By admin

“That’s Our New Theater” Sometimes art begets art. On his drive home from a poetry festival in Marshall, Minnesota, in the spring of 1998, Ken Flies imagined the basic idea for the Rural America Arts Partnership. He had heard enough that week of abandoned barns and falling silos, and he knew there was a strong […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Center for Collaboration in the Arts, Children, Families and Learning, Collaboration, Cycling, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Food and Beverage, Heritage Tourism, Historic Preservation, History Center, Minnesota, Performing Arts, Program - community, Restaurant or Cafe, Schooling, Theater, Tourism and Recreation

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