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Caring for Our Communities and Serving Our People

June 29, 2012 By admin

Caring for Our Communities and Serving Our People Hot Springs, Montana, is tucked away between the beautiful Salish and Cabinet Mountain ranges in western Montana on the Flathead Reservation of the Confederated Salish, Kootenai, and Pend D’Oreille peoples. Many of the residents in this tiny community of 500+ people are local Salish/Kootenai tribal members. Others […]

Filed Under: Buy Local, Community Development and Design, Consumption and Purchasing, Creating a More Localized Food System, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Green Products, Healthful Products, Montana, Natural and Cultural History, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Organic, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Tourism and Recreation, Women-owned Enterprises

Certifiably Organic

June 29, 2012 By admin

Certifiably Organic Medina, North Dakota The Northern Plains, and North Dakota in particular, have been at the heart of both. Maintaining as much acreage in organic production as any other state in the country, North Dakota has also been home to visionaries in a movement that continues to inspire producers and consumers around the globe. […]

Filed Under: Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Certification Standards, Consumption and Purchasing, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green Products, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, North Dakota, Organic, Organic farming

MaryJanesFarm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Putting a Face to Food Moscow, Idaho Tucked away amongst the contoured countryside about eight miles from Moscow, Idaho, MaryJanesFarm feeds the swelling national appetite for a sense of place and convenient wholesome foods with its 60 different kinds of organic specialty food products sold mostly by mail order, a website, and national magazine. The […]

Filed Under: Biomass/biofuels, Branding, Branding, Branding: Certified Organic, Branding: Label, Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Business to Business: Other, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Developing new products, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Education and Research, Energy and Green Building, Evaluating Consumer Interest, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Fruits, Green Products, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Idaho, Internet/Website, Livestock, Mail/Telephone Order, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Non-GMO, Organic, Organic farming, Poultry, Processing, Product Innovations, Renewable Energy, Starting a business, Value added, Vegetables

Bossie’s Best

June 29, 2012 By admin

Home, Kansas Organic farming is a way of life that dates back 150 years in Nancy Vogelsberg-Busch’s family. Her great-grandfather homesteaded on the north central farm where Nancy was born. When Nancy’s father inherited the farm from her grandfather in the 1950s, it was on the condition of a promise never to use chemicals on […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Branding, Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Corn & Soybeans, Developing new products, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Food related, Grass farming/free range, Green Products, Hay & Alfalfa, Healthful Products, Kansas, Livestock, Local foods systems, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-GMO, Organic, Organic farming, Packaging, Processing, Rotational Grazing, Value added

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