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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

Rosie’s Organic Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Gainsville, Florida Rose Koenig grew up in the Garden State back when an expansive patchwork of market gardens made New Jersey’s moniker ring true. Her dad and grandfather before him raised vegetables and layer hens, and trucked the goods into farmers’ markets, small grocery stores and restaurants in town and New York City. Now the […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business to Business: Other, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Florida, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Value added, Vegetables

Caledonia Farms

June 29, 2012 By admin

Blending produce, pasture and helping horses Barre, Massachussetts “We pride ourselves at living and doing things outside of the box,” explains David Petrovick of Caledonia Farm, outside Barre, Massachusetts. For David, this means blending historic farming traditions such as draft horses with hot agriculture marketing trends like the growth of grassfed meats, always keeping an […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Conservation, Conservation Aim, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Livestock, Local foods systems, Marketing - Ag specific, Massachussetts, Methods, Non-GMO, Organic farming, Sustainable Use, Vegetables

BC Gardens

June 29, 2012 By admin

Healthy Produce Avid gardeners since childhood, Kathy Botten and Ruth Capp founded BC Gardens, an organic vegetable, herb, and flower garden in 1998. The “BC” in BC Gardens stands for “before chemicals” and “Botten, Capp”. Kathy and Ruth plant and work nearly 3+ acres at their home near Belgrade, Minnesota for commercial sale. “Gardening organically […]

Filed Under: Branding: Certified Organic, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Buy Local, Certification Standards, Community Supported Agriculture, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Cover Crops, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct to Customer, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green Products, Healthful Products, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic, Organic farming, Pesticide Reduction, Practices, Processing, Soil Quality, Sustainable Use, Value added, Vegetables

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