Renewing the Countryside

Story Clearinghouse

  • who we are
    • staff
    • board
    • latest news
  • resources
    • publications
    • technical assistance
    • books
    • story clearinghouse
  • projects
    • green routes
    • farm to school
    • grow a farmer
    • new organic stewards
    • farm transitions
  • events
    • MN State Fair
    • Feast! Festival and Tradeshow
    • event volunteer
  • support
    • donate
    • sign up

Great River Gardens

June 29, 2012 By admin

Minimalist Approach Great River Gardens lies north of Aitkin along the Mississippi River as it winds its way from Lake Itasca through Minnesota. Plots of berries and vegetables are grown close to the farm’s homestead, along with aspen, hay and rye crops surrounding 17,000 square feet of greenhouses. The buildings are heated with hot water […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Fruits, Hay & Alfalfa, Horticultural crops, Integrated Pest Management, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, 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

Easy Bean Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Environmentally Positive Farming Easy Bean Farm is a 120 acre spread in the Chippewa River Valley near Montevideo. In addition to the 46 acres of grass pasture for rotational grazing of beef cattle, there are 12 acres of mixed and certified organic vegetables. Easy Bean markets most of its vegetable to 109 community supported agriculture […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Direct Marketing, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Organic farming, Pest Management, Rotational Grazing, Vegetables

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10

Browse Stories by Category