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King Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Cultivating A Meaningful Life Vegetable producers Jan and Tim King harvest two acres of organic vegetables and fruit on their 36-acre farm in Todd County, Minnesota. Both natives to Long Prairie, Minnesota, they began gardening together in 1970, and, after spending a decade in the Twin Cities, moved back to Todd County to live what […]

Filed Under: Business - cooperative, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Business to Business: Other, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Direct: consumer buying clubs, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Organic farming, Pest Management, Soils & Compost, Vegetables

Forestedge Winery

June 29, 2012 By admin

Port in LaPorte In LaPorte, Minnesota Paul and Sharon Shuster are fermenting a batch of rhubarb wine. This is the home of Forestedge Winery, tucked between Minnesota Highway 64 and the Paul Bunyan State Forest, where Paul and Sharon along with partner, John Wildmo are growing, fermenting and bottling fruit wines as varied as: * […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Brewery or Vineyard, Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Culinary Travel, Direct to customer/user, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food and Beverage, Fruits, Heritage Tourism, Horticultural crops, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), On-Farm Visits, Packaging, Processing, Regional Arts, Tourism and Recreation, Value added

Bio Builder of Minnesota

June 29, 2012 By admin

Healthy Lakes Bio Builder of Alexandria designed a unique fertilizer to keep Minnesota lakes clean, while helping lakeshore owners grow healthy, green lawns. The fertilizer, Thrivin’ Natural™ and Organic Turfgrass, is made from corn distiller’s dried grain and rough fish. The environmentally friendly formula is phosphorous-free eliminating toxic run-off and protecting and maintaining lake water […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business to Business, Children, Families and Learning, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Marketing to Government Agencies, Methods, Minnesota, Native Prairie Grasses, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic farming, Product Innovations, Soil Quality, Value added, Water Quality, Wetland Restoration, Youth, Youth Businesses

Star Haven Farms

June 29, 2012 By admin

Growing a Business on Grass Iola, Texas The adage “Necessity is the mother of all invention” proved true for Ray and Karen Hadaway of Star Haven Farms in Iola, Texas. “When we started five years ago, we simply didn’t have the money to buy the quantities of grain feed needed to raise beef cattle to […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Human Health, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Poultry, Sheep and goats, Texas, Word-of-Mouth

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