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Harmony Valley Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Growing as Vegetable Interpreters Viroqua, Wisconsin “When a member sends us a note at the end of the season saying that you changed my life through changing how I eat, that’s the real bottom line for us,” explains Richard de Wilde, co-owner of Harmony Valley Farm with his wife, Linda Halley. With the same tender […]

Filed Under: Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Direct to Customer, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Non-GMO, Organic farming, Vegetables, Wisconsin

MaryJanesFarm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Putting a Face to Food Moscow, Idaho Tucked away amongst the contoured countryside about eight miles from Moscow, Idaho, MaryJanesFarm feeds the swelling national appetite for a sense of place and convenient wholesome foods with its 60 different kinds of organic specialty food products sold mostly by mail order, a website, and national magazine. The […]

Filed Under: Biomass/biofuels, Branding, Branding, Branding: Certified Organic, Branding: Label, Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Business to Business: Other, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Developing new products, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Education and Research, Energy and Green Building, Evaluating Consumer Interest, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Fruits, Green Products, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Idaho, Internet/Website, Livestock, Mail/Telephone Order, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Non-GMO, Organic, Organic farming, Poultry, Processing, Product Innovations, Renewable Energy, Starting a business, Value added, 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

Leunen Farms

June 29, 2012 By admin

Intensively Grazing Horses, Goats and Poultry Lancaster, Missouri Economically, ecologically and culturally integrated at the 23 acre Leunen Farms, farming comes naturally. Located about 20 miles from Kirksville, Missouri with a population of 18,000 residents, Leunen Farms’ owners, Debra and John Leunen, don’t need to leave their farm to sell their horses, Boer meat goats […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Livestock, Mail/Telephone Order, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Missouri, Pest Management, Poultry, Sheep and goats, Vegetables, Weed Control, Wildlife

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