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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’ Naturalâ„¢ 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

BC Gardens

June 29, 2012 By admin

Healthy Produce Avid gardeners since childhood, Kathy Botten and Ruth Capp founded BC Gardens, an organic vegetable, herb, and flower garden in 1998. The “BC” in BC Gardens stands for “before chemicals” and “Botten, Capp”. Kathy and Ruth plant and work nearly 3+ acres at their home near Belgrade, Minnesota for commercial sale. “Gardening organically […]

Filed Under: Branding: Certified Organic, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Buy Local, Certification Standards, Community Supported Agriculture, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Cover Crops, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct to Customer, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green Products, Healthful Products, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic, Organic farming, Pesticide Reduction, Practices, Processing, Soil Quality, Sustainable Use, Value added, Vegetables

Willow Lake Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Learning to See Tony Thompson has lived on his family’s Willow Lake Farm near Windom, Minnesota all of his life. Although he holds a bachelor’s degree in agronomy and has nearly completed his Master’s degree in Plant Community Ecology from the University of Montana, at Bozeman, he never really left home for school. “I went […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Biodiversity, Birds, Business - family, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Corn & Soybeans, Cover Crops, Developing new products, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, Management Concerns, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Practices, Prairie Restoration, Prairie Seeds, Soil Quality, Soils & Compost, Waste Reduction, Water Quality, Water Quality, Wetland or Waterway Reconstruction

Salber Family Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Up for the Challenge Mike and Keri Salber, of rural Browerville, have been farming most of their lives. For many years, they were conventional farmers, using herbicides, for instance, to control weeds and antibiotics to treat sick animals. A number of years ago, the Salbers decided to try a different approach to solving the challenges […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Flame Weeding, Hogs, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Poultry, Rotational Grazing, Soil Quality, Water Quality

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