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Axdahl’s Garden Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Roadside Tradition Brian and Leslie Axdahl are famous for their sweet corn. Starting every year in mid to late July, folks from miles around make a sort of pilgrimage to Axdahl’s roadside vegetable stand on the outskirts of Stillwater, Minnesota for some of the sweetest, most tender “bi-color” corn they’ve ever tasted. Still warm […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to Business: Supermarkets, Children, Families and Learning, Conservation, Corn & Soybeans, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fence Row Buffer Strips, Field Crops, Horticultural crops, Local foods systems, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, Pest Management, Pesticide Reduction, Practices, Vegetables, Wildlife, Youth, Youth Workers

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

Ferrell Secakuku Restores Hopi Orchards

June 29, 2012 By admin

Return of the Peaches They may receive scant and unpredictable rainfall, but the Hopi mesas of northern Arizona support some of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America. When the Spaniards arrived in the region almost five centuries ago, the Hopi were agriculturalists. They recognized the peaches the Spaniards brought as excellent additions to […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Community Development and Design, Community-Based Approach, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Environment, econ, culture, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Native Tree Species, Program - community, Project Identification, Design, and Implementation, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Promoting History & Culture, Public Policy, Rural Business Development, SW book, Vegetables

Grow Alabama

June 29, 2012 By admin

Birmingham, Alabama Jerry Spencer is an entrepreneur. So it was with a sense of adventure that this chiropractor of 20 years–a man who had never in his life grown a single tomato plant much less a garden–dug up his front lawn one day and planted a vegetable plot far bigger than what would feed his […]

Filed Under: Alabama, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Livestock, Local foods systems, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Poultry, Program - non-profit, Vegetables

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