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Entrepreneurial Spirit Drives Diverse Family Enterprises

June 29, 2012 By admin

Hell Creek Music & More, the Makoshika Dinosaur Museum and E-Tana Glendive, MT Most businesses can sum up their core focus in a sentence or two. For the creative Bury family in Glendive, Montana, you better pull up a chair and sit a spell. Originally from Seattle, Christie and Steve Bury, along with their teenage […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Business - family, Business Development and Marketing, Business Retention and Development, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Marketing, Montana, Music, Natural and Cultural History, Performing Arts, Program - non-profit, Rural Business Development, Small Business, Social Marketing, Social Marketing: Linking Consumers to Producers, Starting a Business, Tourism and Recreation, Youth, Youth Businesses

Java River Coffeehouse

June 29, 2012 By admin

Stirring Things Up Mary Moore holds up an offering of fresh-brewed gourmet coffee at Java River in downtown Montevideo, Minnesota. Along with husband Patrick, the Moore’s aim to do far more than introduce the heartland to the luxury of gourmet coffee. The coffeehouse also features a computer kiosk, linking customers directly to sustainable farms and […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Buy Local, Community Development and Design, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct to Customer, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food and Beverage, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, Responsible Purchasing, Restaurant or Cafe, Rural Business Development, Social Marketing, Tourism and Recreation

Greentree Naturals

June 29, 2012 By admin

“My grandmother told me to never put all your eggs in one basket. This holds true for all aspects of marketing. For the small acreage farmer to succeed, we need to be diversified,” shares Diane Green, owner of Greentree Naturals, a small certified organic farm in rural northern Idaho she operates with her husband, Thom […]

Filed Under: Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business Development and Marketing, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Direct Marketing, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Education and Research, Environmental Education Programs, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Idaho, Internet/Website, Marketing, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Organic farming, Rural Business Development, Social Marketing, Vegetables

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