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Country Heritage Adventures

June 29, 2012 By admin

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 […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Bed & Breakfast, Beef and Dairy, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Cultural Preservation, Diversification for Farmers, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Emus, Farm Stays, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Herbs & flowers, Heritage Tourism, Horticultural crops, Hospitality, Livestock, Llamas, Minnesota, On-Farm Visits, Program - non-profit, Program - university, Sheep and goats, Tourism and Recreation

Apple Crisp Cooperative

June 29, 2012 By admin

A “Core” Effort Southeast Minnesota is a countryside dotted with picturesque apple orchards, a development led nearly a century ago by the University of Minnesota. Partly due to the Mississippi River and partly due to landscape conditions created in the last glacial age, climate and soil conditions are unique to the area and ideal for […]

Filed Under: Business - cooperative, Business Development, Business Development - Ag specific, Business planning, Business to Business: Other, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Cooperation with other organizations, Developing new products, Diversification for Farmers, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Local foods systems, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Preserving landscapes, Processing, Rural/urban connection, Sourced from Cooperative Enterprises, Southeast Minnesota, Value added

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