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Stargate Valley Farms

June 29, 2012 By admin

Realizing Dreams under the Stars Holbrook, Arizona · By Roger Clark To many people in their sixties, retirement means days filled with hitting golf balls, playing bridge with friends, or traveling the world. But Carol Poore and Dennis Swayda had another dream: to own a farm and raise goats. The couple milk sixteen dairy goats […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Business - family, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic farming, Processing, Sheep and goats, SW book, Value added, Vegetables

Drake Family Farms LLC

June 29, 2012 By admin

Farming Kids West Jordan, Utah Situated in the Salt Lake Valley in West Jordan, Utah, about 10 miles from Salt Lake City to the north, Drake Family Farms milks profits from a herd of dairy goats, enduring the rapidly changing landscape of agriculture and land use. A Utah Century Farm owned by Jeanette and Ron […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Developing new products, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Direct: u-pick, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Internet/Website, Livestock, Mail/Telephone Order, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Poultry, Processing, Product Innovations, Sheep and goats, Utah, Value added

Fall Family Fun on the Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

It’s the glint in his eyes and the mischievous delight in his voice that draws one in to Steve Enger. As he spins tales and visions of abandoned farm equipment turned into marketing props and catapults—an old grainery meticulously renovated into a haunted house, and farmland magically transformed each fall into an intricate maze carved […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Business - family, Corn Mazes, Cultural Preservation, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, North Dakota, On-Farm Visits, Storytelling, Tourism and Recreation

RBJ Spreadable Fruit

June 29, 2012 By admin

Grandma’s Recipe Goes Global Kim Samuelson, owner and operator of RBJ Family Restaurant in Crookston, Minnesota, has worked in the restaurant industry since she was 9 years old. Kim has run the restaurant, named after her father, Roger Bernard Johnson, since 1987. In the early 1990’s, Kim created a single batch of her grandmother’s recipe […]

Filed Under: Branding, Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Community Development and Design, Developing new products, Direct to customer/user, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Food related, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Packaging, Processing, Value added

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