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Primus Fresh-Air-Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Improving the Environment Just north of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, a few miles off Highway 27, you will find the lush green landscape of Marty and Georgiann’s 198-acre Primus Fresh-Air-Farm. Here they live with their four children, Meagan, Joshua, Benjamin and Abbeylyn where they are dedicated to the idea of improving the environment by keeping the […]

Filed Under: Air Quality, Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farm stand, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Livestock, Low Input, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Pest Management, Poultry, Practices, Responsible Purchasing, Rotational Grazing, Soil Quality

Finke’s Berry Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Strawberry Fields Forever What is better than a ripe strawberry picked fresh in the field, or a handful of blueberries straight from the bush? ‘Nothing’ is the answer that Doug Finke and Diane Feld-Finke would give. The couple’s berry farm has come a long way since it began in 1986. Finke’s Berry Farm is a […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Buy Local, Collaboration, Conservation, Consumption and Purchasing, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct: u-pick, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Low Input, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, On-Farm Visits, Pest Management, Practices, Soils & Compost, Tourism and Recreation

Prairie Restoration, Inc.

June 29, 2012 By admin

Urban Artistry Ron Bowen, Prairie Restoration‘s founder, restores native prairie in unusual places. Bowen’s artistry is evident in plantings he created for State Farm’s headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota. In the traditional corporate arrangement, more conventional landscaping and turf grass would be what casual visitors would see. At State Farm, employees and visitors are greeted […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development – Harvesting Nature specifi, Business to Business, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Developing new products, Harvesting Nature, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Niche crops, Practices, Prairie Grasses & Wildflowers, Prairie Restoration, Restoration Planting, Starting a business, Wetland or Waterway Reconstruction, Wetland Restoration, Wetland species

Dave Jacobson

June 29, 2012 By admin

Preserving and Educating Love of the land, wildlife and a vision of what was there before his grandparents homesteaded his 160-acre family farm motivated David Jacobson of Sauk Centre, Minnesota to return the land to its natural state of wetlands, woodlands, and prairie. When asked why he would take active farmland out of production, Jacobson […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Easements, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Education, Land Trusts, Minnesota, On-Farm Visits, On-farm Workshops, Policy Tools, Practices, Prairie Restoration, Preserving landscapes, Program - private, Tourism and Recreation, Water Quality, Wetland or Waterway Reconstruction, Wildlife Management

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