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Salber Family Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Up for the Challenge Mike and Keri Salber, of rural Browerville, have been farming most of their lives. For many years, they were conventional farmers, using herbicides, for instance, to control weeds and antibiotics to treat sick animals. A number of years ago, the Salbers decided to try a different approach to solving the challenges […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Flame Weeding, Hogs, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Poultry, Rotational Grazing, Soil Quality, Water Quality

Aspelund Family Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Adding Value to the Farm In 1997, Nancy Aspelund of Aspelund Family Farm won a Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education (SARE) grant that she and her husband, Dean, called “Diversifying a Small Crop Farm with Hogs and Poultry on Pasture, Apple Trees and Plums.” Before the grant, the Aspelund’s dreamed about how to make their […]

Filed Under: Animal Welfare, Antibiotic Free, Business - family, Children, Families and Learning, Conservation, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Farmer to Farmer/Business to Business, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Field Days, Fruits, Grass farming/free range, Hay & Alfalfa, Healing landscape, Hogs, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Kellogg (non-food & ag), Livestock, Local foods systems, Low Input, Methods, Minnesota, Organic farming, Poultry, Practices

Primus Fresh-Air-Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Improving the Environment Just north of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, a few miles off Highway 27, you will find the lush green landscape of Marty and Georgiann’s 198-acre Primus Fresh-Air-Farm. Here they live with their four children, Meagan, Joshua, Benjamin and Abbeylyn where they are dedicated to the idea of improving the environment by keeping the […]

Filed Under: Air Quality, Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farm stand, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Livestock, Low Input, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Pest Management, Poultry, Practices, Responsible Purchasing, Rotational Grazing, Soil Quality

Heritage Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A family-integrated agricultural operation Ridgeway, Pennsylvania Take a young couple firmly rooted in their dream of a rural lifestyle, raising their family on a small farm in the mountains. Add hard work, constant learning and innovation, a diversified approach to growing, five active kids, twenty years and a continued faithful love for the land and […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Children, Families and Learning, Corn & Soybeans, Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Education and Research, Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Food and Beverage, Food Production Enterprise, Fruits, Grass farming/free range, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Hogs, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Lifelong Learning, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Passive Solar Design, Pennsylvania, Poultry, Processing, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vegetables

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