When local customers first pull up to Hampton Square in Blue Ridge, Georgia, they may not see the fresh start-up businesses housed in the newly renovated building right away. They may be remembering the Pontiac dealership, the International Harvester tractor showroom, the poultry factory, the skating rink and the antique store that had all, at […]
Tumbleweed Tours: Sharing rural Nebraska, one tour bus at a time
Sometimes business opportunity blooms right outside your doorstep, down the local county road and back up the gravel road you’ve driven over a thousand times. Such is the case with Tumbleweed Tours, a tourism venture in rural southeast Nebraska launched by Victoria Lipovsky and Kelly Kahman, a pair of farm women who aren’t short on […]
Grow Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama Jerry Spencer is an entrepreneur. So it was with a sense of adventure that this chiropractor of 20 years–a man who had never in his life grown a single tomato plant much less a garden–dug up his front lawn one day and planted a vegetable plot far bigger than what would feed his […]
Resource Revival: Creative Recycling With Rural Inspiration
Glendive Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture Mosier, Oregon With the Columbia River Gorge as an inspiring backdrop, Graham Bergh blends entrepreneurship with innovative green design through his company, Resource Revival, all from a work-at-home base in rural Mosier, Oregon. Transforming bicycle parts otherwise destined for the landfill into hip home and gift accessories such as […]
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