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Earth Elements Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Micro-farm Adds Value In More Ways Than One Lexington, Oklahoma Sometimes personal adversity and limited funds foster an environment of innovation and creativity. For April Harrington, the sole proprietor-farmer of Earth Elements Farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, it’s led to an agricultural operation that is practically 100 percent value-added. On 3/4-acre of her five acre farm, […]

Filed Under: Business - self, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Consumption and Purchasing, Developing new products, Direct to customer/user, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Greenhouse Production, Healthful Products, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Mail/Telephone Order, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Oklahoma, Processing, Product Innovations, Strawbale, Value added, Weed Control, Word-of-Mouth

Darthia Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Horse-powered Homesteaders Gouldsboro, Maine To some, gliding over new-fallen snow in a horse-drawn sleigh might seem like a wintertime fantasy — or a scene from a Courier & Ives print. To Darthia Farm, a 50 acre homestead and certified organic farm in Gouldsboro, Maine, it’s a way of life. Owned by Cindy and Bill Thayer, […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Arts and Culture, Beef and Dairy, Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Children, Families and Learning, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Education and Research, Educational Opportunities, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Livestock, Maine, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-GMO, Organic farming, Packaging, Poultry, Processing, Schooling, Seasonal producers, Sheep and goats, Textile Arts, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vegetables

Avalon Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Earning a Living from the Land, and Water Winchester, Kentucky Amongst the gently rolling hills of Winchester, Kentucky, just 15 miles outside of Lexington, is the 556 acre Avalon Farm, with beef cattle in the pasture, a greenhouse set aside for raising quail, twenty acres devoted to vegetable crops, and about twenty acres planted in […]

Filed Under: Aquaculture, Direct Marketing, Direct: farm stand, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Greenhouse Production, Horticultural crops, Kentucky, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Vegetables

Whole Farm Cooperative

June 29, 2012 By admin

Birth of a Cooperative Nation Whole Farm Cooperative (WFC) arose in response to the large corporate-run conglomerates that threaten the small farm way of life. Comprised of about fifty family farms throughout Central Minnesota, the Co-op draws from a strong history of livestock, dairy, and vegetable farmers marketing goods cooperatively. Begun in a basement, which […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - cooperative, Business Development - Ag specific, Cooperation with other organizations, Corn & Soybeans, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: Congregational Supported Agriculture, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Fruits, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Hogs, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Nuts, Organic farming, Poultry, Sheep and goats, Small Grains, Vegetables

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