“The most natural meat is the most profitable method” Marionville, Missouri In 1996, Rick Hopkins was just about at breaking point with his 100-acre Missouri beef farm on the flat foothills of the Ozark Mountains . He was raising 40 head of adult cattle on a small plot of unmanaged pasture, supplementing their diet with […]
Country Heritage Adventures
Family Fun on the Farm Tourism combined with a farm/agricultural experience – or agri-tourism as it has become known – has been growing in popularity throughout the United States and, more specifically, in Minnesota with its rich and highly-textured rural heritage. Farm tours, bed and breakfasts, farmers markets, and other tourism enterprises can help to […]
The Babbitt Ranches
“Just Participate!” Coconino County, Arizona · By Rose Houk If you ask Billy Cordasco what sustainability is, he takes his time answering. “It’s a hard concept,” he says, “because the environment is always changing.” The best explanation he’s ever heard is “living off interest, not principle.” Billy is president of the board of Babbitt Ranches, […]
Alderspring Ranch
Artisanal beef the grass fed way Salmon, Idaho Grass fed beef may appear hip today, given all the current publicawareness and media attention on the livestock industry, heightened by Mad Cow disease scares.But garner an understanding of Glenn nand Caryl Elzinga’s lifestyle and approach to ranching at Alderspring Ranch and one realizes this isn’t a […]
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