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Forestedge Winery

June 29, 2012 By admin

Port in LaPorte In LaPorte, Minnesota Paul and Sharon Shuster are fermenting a batch of rhubarb wine. This is the home of Forestedge Winery, tucked between Minnesota Highway 64 and the Paul Bunyan State Forest, where Paul and Sharon along with partner, John Wildmo are growing, fermenting and bottling fruit wines as varied as: * […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Brewery or Vineyard, Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Culinary Travel, Direct to customer/user, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food and Beverage, Fruits, Heritage Tourism, Horticultural crops, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), On-Farm Visits, Packaging, Processing, Regional Arts, Tourism and Recreation, Value added

Moorhead Public Service

June 29, 2012 By admin

Capturing the Wind Moorhead Public Service (MPS), a utility company located in Moorhead, Minnesota hoped to attract 425 subscribers for its Capture the Wind™ program. Launched during Earth Week in April 1999, it took just 12 days to reach their goal. The phenomenal success of the program led to the 750-kilowatt Vestas™ wind turbine on […]

Filed Under: Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Consumption and Purchasing, Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Green Products, Minnesota, Program - community, Program - government, Renewable Energy, Responsible Purchasing, Wind

Northeast Minnesota Sustainable Development Partnership

June 29, 2012 By admin

Reaching Out Tucked among serene pines at the Cloquet Forestry Center, is a beehive of activity called the Northeast Minnesota Sustainable Development Partnership (NMSDP). The Partnership is reaching out to a wide range of groups in the region to find innovative ways to renew the countryside. With the energetic support of its executive director, Okey […]

Filed Under: Buy Local, Community Development and Design, Consumption and Purchasing, Developing Models of Partnership, Land Zoning - Land Use Planning, Minnesota, Program - community, Program - university, Project Identification, Design, and Implementation, Public Policy

Forest Mushrooms, Inc.

June 29, 2012 By admin

Building a Business Kevin Doyle has always been interested in botany and the natural world. He worked on a potato farm as a kid, studied biology and botany at St. John’s University, and studied the cultivation of peat bogs for fuel in Ireland. Then one day, while he was working on another bio-fuel project at […]

Filed Under: Biomass/biofuels, Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to Business: Other, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farmers markets, Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, Mushrooms, Renewable Energy, Soils & Compost

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