Put Your Money Where Your Farm Is The national economy has been thriving in recent years. Unfortunately, rural communities have often been left behind as corporate consolidations continue at an accelerating rate and as business activity has drifted to larger centers of commerce. To sustain Minnesota’s rural communities economically, the rural citizenry should be able […]
Kas Brothers
Winds of Change From one perspective, Richard and Roger Kas of Woodstock, Minnesota are typical Midwestern farmers who grew up farming the family land with their father, William. But this family has something unmistakably unique taking place on their farm: they are farming the wind. With over 17 modern wind turbines on their land, they […]
Big Sky Business Runs On eBay Energy
Brockway Mercantile Brockway, Montana When most folks buy something off eBay, it arrives through the mail in a box. Not for Brigitte and Doug Dubin – e-Bay connected them with a new home and lifestyle. When they purchased the Brockway Mercantile building off eBay, they traded an urban smog-filled Los Angeles lifestyle for starry skies, […]
Greentree Naturals
“My grandmother told me to never put all your eggs in one basket. This holds true for all aspects of marketing. For the small acreage farmer to succeed, we need to be diversified,” shares Diane Green, owner of Greentree Naturals, a small certified organic farm in rural northern Idaho she operates with her husband, Thom […]
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