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Indian Springs Farmers Association

June 29, 2012 By admin

Ben Burkett awakes at5:30 in the morning to tend the land his family has farmed since the 1880s. In partnership with his daughter, he grows spinach, kale, mustards, peas, watermelon, squash, eggplant, sweet corn, okra and mixed organic culinary herbs on 150 acres, and pine timber on 80 of his 255-acre southern Mississippi farm. Ben […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Other, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Mississippi, Organic farming, Vegetables

Apple Crisp Cooperative

June 29, 2012 By admin

A “Core” Effort Southeast Minnesota is a countryside dotted with picturesque apple orchards, a development led nearly a century ago by the University of Minnesota. Partly due to the Mississippi River and partly due to landscape conditions created in the last glacial age, climate and soil conditions are unique to the area and ideal for […]

Filed Under: Business - cooperative, Business Development, Business Development - Ag specific, Business planning, Business to Business: Other, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Cooperation with other organizations, Developing new products, Diversification for Farmers, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Local foods systems, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Preserving landscapes, Processing, Rural/urban connection, Sourced from Cooperative Enterprises, Southeast Minnesota, Value added

Keating Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Jim and Sue Keating are newcomers to the world of organic agriculture. Prior to moving to the town of Bennington in central Kansas, the couple raised a family in urban Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where Sue was a church secretary and Jim taught civil engineering at the university. When their kids moved out and the couple moved […]

Filed Under: Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Community Cooperative, Community Development and Design, Corn & Soybeans, Creating a More Localized Food System, Direct Marketing, Direct: consumer buying clubs, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Hay & Alfalfa, Horticultural crops, Kansas, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic farming, Packaging, Processing, Product Innovations, Regionalized Cooperation, Small Grains, Soils & Compost, Value added, Vegetables

Medicinal Herbs on the Urban Fringe

June 29, 2012 By admin

Unique Income Source Renne Soberg was raised on his family’s dairy farm in Lakeville, Minnesota, where his family have been farming since the 1890s. The farm, greatly reduced in size after surviving many permutations, is now under Renne’s care. After working in Washington for the USDA, Renne returned to Minnesota to finish his education, and […]

Filed Under: Birds, Business - cooperative, Business Development, Business planning, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Developing new products, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Organic farming, Preserving Greenspace, Processing, Starting a business, Value added

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