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Moonlight Meadow Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

New Horizons with Attractive Alpacas Chardon, Ohio “What business enables you to be around the cutest animals on earth all day and run a financially viable enterprise?” rhetorically asks Donna Christley, co-owner of Moonlight Meadow Farm in Chardon, Ohio. Her enthusiastic reply: alpacas. “Folks tend to get hooked on alpacas from the first time they […]

Filed Under: Alpacas, Business - small (<20 employees), Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Grass farming/free range, Hay & Alfalfa, Internet/Website, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Ohio, Processing, Value added

Peterson Farm: Linking Farming & Tourism

June 29, 2012 By admin

Corn that Twists and Turns Sever Peterson is a third generation farmer whose large, extended family helps him run a 1000 acre farm in the Minnesota River Valley in Eden Prairie. Vegetable farming has been a way of life for Sever’s family since his grandfather acquired the farm in the 1880s. “Since the turn of […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Corn & Soybeans, Corn Mazes, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, Tourism and Recreation, Vegetables

Heritage Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A family-integrated agricultural operation Ridgeway, Pennsylvania Take a young couple firmly rooted in their dream of a rural lifestyle, raising their family on a small farm in the mountains. Add hard work, constant learning and innovation, a diversified approach to growing, five active kids, twenty years and a continued faithful love for the land and […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Children, Families and Learning, Corn & Soybeans, Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Education and Research, Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Food and Beverage, Food Production Enterprise, Fruits, Grass farming/free range, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Hogs, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Lifelong Learning, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Passive Solar Design, Pennsylvania, Poultry, Processing, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vegetables

Jones Family Farms

June 29, 2012 By admin

Harnessing Customers to Bring in the Harvest Shelton, Connecticut Hailed as one of the outstanding reasons to visit New England by Yankee Magazine, you don’t need to be a farmer to appreciate what the Jones Family Farms — owned by Terry and Jean Jones along with their son, Jamie and his wife Christiana — has […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Brewery or Vineyard, Business - family, Christmas Trees, Connecticut, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Direct: u-pick, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Educational Opportunities, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Festivals, Festivals, Field Crops, Food and Beverage, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Native Tree Species, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), On-Farm Visits, Processing, Seasonal producers, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vegetables

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