Renewing the Countryside

Story Clearinghouse

  • who we are
    • staff
    • board
    • latest news
  • resources
    • publications
    • technical assistance
    • books
    • story clearinghouse
  • projects
    • green routes
    • farm to school
    • grow a farmer
    • new organic stewards
    • farm transitions
  • events
    • MN State Fair
    • Feast! Festival and Tradeshow
    • event volunteer
  • support
    • donate
    • sign up

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

PastureLand Cooperative

June 29, 2012 By admin

Their Own Brand PastureLand Cooperative in southeast Minnesota is marketing cheese, butter, milk and ice cream made from the milk of grass-fed cows. Together with six Rochester area producers, the co-op aremarketing their own brand of cheese and milk. It wasn’t just low milk prices that prompted members of a Rochester-area cooperative to create their […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Branding, Branding: Label, Business - cooperative, Business Development, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Direct: farmers markets, Evaluating Consumer Interest, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Grass farming/free range, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Rotational Grazing, Starting a business, Value added

Ekola family farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Close to Nature Diversity is the key to success on the Ekola family farm where they raise a variety of crops and livestock, including chickens, pigs, and dairy cows on 150 acres west of Garfield, Minnesota. Guy and Mary Ekola, along with their three children, are committed to raising their animals as humanely and close […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Poultry, Rotational Grazing, Sourced from Cooperative Enterprises

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

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 23
  • Next Page »

Browse Stories by Category