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New Hope Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Value-added products bloom on the prairie Rapid City, South Dakota Zita Kwartek knows a good thing when she sees it. “When I first saw this farm, a double rainbow appeared, a sign to me that this special place would provide inspiration and a livelihood from the land. That’s when I gave it the name, ‘New […]

Filed Under: Business - self, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic farming, Product Innovations, Soils & Compost, South Dakota, Value added, Vegetables

Fae Ridge Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

On Fae Ridge Farm, just outside of Iowa City, Janette Ryan-Busch raises organic vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, goats, sheep, llamas, and angora rabbits. Geese and ducks provide insect control, and chickens help with the decom-position of garden waste. Janette is known locally as the Queen of Basil, raising ten to fifteen thousand basil plants annually. […]

Filed Under: Business to Business: Cooperatives, Consumption and Purchasing, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green Products, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Iowa, Livestock, Llamas, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic, Organic farming, Poultry, Processing, Sheep and goats, Value added, 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

Wild Thang Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Ashland, Missouri “What’s that wild thang growin’ on the side of the road?” It was the question Mimo Davis fielded most frequently from customers during the four years she worked at a wild flower nursery. It’s chicory, a slender blue flower that only blooms for a day… It’s butterfly weed, a flat orange fan flower, […]

Filed Under: Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development, Business to Business: Other, Community Development and Design, Developing new products, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Diversified Funding, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Missouri, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Niche crops, Women-owned Enterprises

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