Nauvoo, IL With a 12-acre vineyard and wine-making plant, Brenda and Kelly Logan are preserving a family tradition that dates back to 1857 when Kelly’s great, great grandfather planted the first grapes on this west central Illinois farm. The couple is also helping to preserve the history of Nauvoo, a community whose past is steeped […]
Forest Mushrooms, Inc.
Building a Business Kevin Doyle has always been interested in botany and the natural world. He worked on a potato farm as a kid, studied biology and botany at St. John’s University, and studied the cultivation of peat bogs for fuel in Ireland. Then one day, while he was working on another bio-fuel project at […]
Moonlight Meadow Farm
New Horizons with Attractive Alpacas Chardon, Ohio “What business enables you to be around the cutest animals on earth all day and run a financially viable enterprise?” rhetorically asks Donna Christley, co-owner of Moonlight Meadow Farm in Chardon, Ohio. Her enthusiastic reply: alpacas. “Folks tend to get hooked on alpacas from the first time they […]
Diné Be’iina and the Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land
Sheep Is Life Navajo Nation, Arizona · By Gary Paul Nabhan When one first sees a flock of Navajo Churro sheep moving across the sage-covered flats of Navajo Nation lands, it is easy to imagine that they have been here, adapting to this land, since time immemorial. Their colors – buffs, browns, silvery-blues, cream, and […]
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