A 40-year Old Idea Entrepreneur Lloyd Peterson’s company, High Pointe Coverings crafts wool mattresses, an idea Lloyd has entertained for 40 years now. The idea began forming when Lloyd visited a neighbor’s auction where he met his fate. “She showed me this mattress made of wool, which was over 100 years old. ”I ended up […]
Country Heritage Adventures
Family Fun on the Farm Tourism combined with a farm/agricultural experience – or agri-tourism as it has become known – has been growing in popularity throughout the United States and, more specifically, in Minnesota with its rich and highly-textured rural heritage. Farm tours, bed and breakfasts, farmers markets, and other tourism enterprises can help to […]
21st Century Gold-Mining Community Treasure
21st Century Gold-Mining Community Treasure In the early 1860s, the glimmer of gold sparkling from gravel bars in Dixie Creek allured settlers to call Prairie City home. Today, Prairie City still harbors gold, but measures its wealth in the people who live there. The community — 1,100 strong — is composed of long-standing families with […]
BC Gardens
Healthy Produce Avid gardeners since childhood, Kathy Botten and Ruth Capp founded BC Gardens, an organic vegetable, herb, and flower garden in 1998. The “BC” in BC Gardens stands for “before chemicals” and “Botten, Capp”. Kathy and Ruth plant and work nearly 3+ acres at their home near Belgrade, Minnesota for commercial sale. “Gardening organically […]
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