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Snowy Pines Restoration

June 29, 2012 By admin

Message in a Bottle Greg and his wife, Marcia Rapatz’s passion for trees led to the creation of Snowy Pines Reforestation, a service-oriented forestry business committed to sustainable forestry and reforestation near Browerville, MN. Combined, Greg and Marcia have over 45 years of forestry experience. “Planting trees is like sending a message in a bottle,” […]

Filed Under: Air Quality, Business - cooperative, Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Community Development and Design, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Energy and Green Building, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Forestry, Forestry Cooperatives, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Harvesting Nature, Minnesota, Passive Solar Design, Responsible Purchasing, Sustainable Management, Water Quality, Wildlife Management

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

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

Teague Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A persuasive six-year-old inspired Daniel Teague to say enough already and become a farmer, something he had always wanted to do. In 2001, Olivia asked her dad to plant watermelons for her. He was working full time as a machinist and on the weekends, building a new house for his family on the land where […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Business to Business: Other, Buy Local, Children, Families and Learning, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: u-pick, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Healthful Products, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Mississippi, Responsible Purchasing, Schooling, Vegetables

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