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Gieske’s Produce

June 29, 2012 By admin

Gieske’s Produce Dan and Gilda Gieske grow vegetables and raise chickens with their three children, Miriam, Benjamin and Rebecca, on an 85-acre farm just north of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The Gieskes moved to their farm in 1991 with their children’s health and safety in mind. They wanted a place where their children could eat vegetables […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Business - cooperative, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Buy Local, Composting, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: consumer buying clubs, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Human Health, Livestock, Low Input, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Pest Management, Poultry, Practices, Sheep and goats, Soil Quality, Soils & Compost, Vegetables

Peterson Produce

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Sustainable Transition Jean Peterson and Al Sterner, of Peterson Produce, farm 200 acres of vegetables, hay, and set aside land near Delano in western Hennepin County. Their farm is split up into three sections. The homestead, which is adjacent to busy Highway 12 just east of Delano, has a 60 acre plot of land. […]

Filed Under: Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Direct: farm stand, Flame Weeding, Hay & Alfalfa, Nitrogen Fixing, Pest Management, Responsible Purchasing, Soil Quality, 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

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

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