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The Diablo Trust

June 29, 2012 By admin

It Takes a Village Coconino County, Arizona · By Sue and Tony Norris The Prosser and the Metzger families have been neighbors for more than eighty years. Their combined ranches, the Bar T Bar and the Flying M, consist of 426,000 acres of federal, state, and private lands spread across a broad swath of northern […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Beef and Dairy, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Forest Preservation and Restoration, Livestock, Program - community, Program - government, SW book, Wildlife Management

Viking Valley Hunt Club

June 29, 2012 By admin

From Harvesting to Hunting Les Bensch, a former computer company executive, and his wife, Bette, a technical writer, operate Viking Valley Hunt Club on 400 acres of pastureland in Ashby, located in central Minnesota. Les and Bette have turned a marginal farm into a hunting and shooting business they say earns five times the revenue […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Fish, Fishing, Fishing, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, Hunting, Hybrid Poplars, Minnesota, Native Prairie Grasses, Native Tree Species, Practices, Prairie Restoration, Tourism and Recreation, Wetland or Waterway Reconstruction, Wetland Restoration, Wildfoods, Wildlife Management

The Berry Patch

June 29, 2012 By admin

More Berries, Less Chemicals The Berry Patch is a 120-acre farm near White Bear Lake, in Washington County. Kevin Edberg is the primary farmer, with other members of the seven family farm partnership participating in financial record keeping and machine repair. The families have been partners in the farm for 25 years. The Berry Patch […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Conservation, Conservation Aim, Corn & Soybeans, Direct: u-pick, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Integrated Pest Management, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Small Grains, Wildlife Management

Snowy Pines Restoration

June 29, 2012 By admin

Message in a Bottle Greg and his wife, Marcia Rapatz’s passion for trees led to the creation of Snowy Pines Reforestation, a service-oriented forestry business committed to sustainable forestry and reforestation near Browerville, MN. Combined, Greg and Marcia have over 45 years of forestry experience. “Planting trees is like sending a message in a bottle,” […]

Filed Under: Air Quality, Business - cooperative, Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Community Development and Design, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Energy and Green Building, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Forestry, Forestry Cooperatives, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Harvesting Nature, Minnesota, Passive Solar Design, Responsible Purchasing, Sustainable Management, Water Quality, Wildlife Management

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