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Forming a Multi-Community Alliance

June 29, 2012 By admin

Forming a Multi-Community Alliance The three small towns of Dayton, Elmo and Big Arm form a u-shaped area around Flathead Lake in stunningly beautiful northwestern Montana. The community of Elmo was selected to participate in Horizons — a community leadership program sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation. When their neighbors in the towns of Big […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Family Entertainment and Activities, Folk Arts, Land Zoning - Land Use Planning, Montana, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Public Policy, Youth, Youth Workers

Nesenkeag Cooperative Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Fresh, Local and Organic Food For All Litchfield, New Hampshire On one 65 acre farm in Litchfield, New Hampshire, some of the richest and most fertile land in the United States supports the growth of diversified niche food crops — seventy in all, but especially the eagerly awaited pea tendrils and salad greens — that […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Business - cooperative, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Conservation, Developing new products, Direct Marketing, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: hospitals, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Educational Opportunities, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New Hampshire, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Niche crops, Policy Tools, Public Policy, Vegetables

Ferrell Secakuku Restores Hopi Orchards

June 29, 2012 By admin

Return of the Peaches They may receive scant and unpredictable rainfall, but the Hopi mesas of northern Arizona support some of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America. When the Spaniards arrived in the region almost five centuries ago, the Hopi were agriculturalists. They recognized the peaches the Spaniards brought as excellent additions to […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Community Development and Design, Community-Based Approach, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Environment, econ, culture, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Native Tree Species, Program - community, Project Identification, Design, and Implementation, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Promoting History & Culture, Public Policy, Rural Business Development, SW book, Vegetables

Waseca: Picking Up Momentum

June 29, 2012 By admin

Welcome to Waseca In the wake of Blandin Community Investment Partnership (BCIP) funding approval, over 100 Waseca residents discussed how they could meet goals vital to the health of their community. “We are really picking up momentum,” said Julie Linnihan of the City of Waseca. Care for community-the people and the land-is behind the energy […]

Filed Under: Community Development and Design, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Minnesota, Program - community, Programs to Welcome Increasing Cultural Diversity, Public Planning, Public Policy, Water Quality

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