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Black Bridge Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Sheep inspire diverse business blend Nicholasville, KY The flock of sheep grazing on the pastures of Black Bridge Farm, located in the scenic rolling hills of central Kentucky about 30 miles south of Lexington, play an integral, strategic role in the diverse business mix of this operation. Providing fiber, meat and educational opportunities,co-owners Keith Erny […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - family, Direct to Customer, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Educational Opportunities, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Kentucky, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Sheep and goats, Textile Arts, Value added

Fae Ridge Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

On Fae Ridge Farm, just outside of Iowa City, Janette Ryan-Busch raises organic vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, goats, sheep, llamas, and angora rabbits. Geese and ducks provide insect control, and chickens help with the decom-position of garden waste. Janette is known locally as the Queen of Basil, raising ten to fifteen thousand basil plants annually. […]

Filed Under: Business to Business: Cooperatives, Consumption and Purchasing, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green Products, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Iowa, Livestock, Llamas, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic, Organic farming, Poultry, Processing, Sheep and goats, Value added, Vegetables

Polyface Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Diversified Everything Swope, Virginia On one 550-acre farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, there’s not much that isn’t diversified. The nationally-recognized Polyface Farm is owned by Joel and Teresa Salatin, Joel’s mother Lucille, and includes their children, Daniel and Rachel, and two apprentices who have woven an ecological approach to farming that is convincingly more profitable, […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Direct: consumer buying clubs, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Organic farming, Poultry, Rotational Grazing, Virginia

Lost Cabin Ranch

June 29, 2012 By admin

The Story of Our Intentions “I really believe,” Rebecca Routson says, “that every square foot of this earth requires its own particular attention.” The particular piece of earth Rebecca and her husband Don attend to is an organic farm in the Williamson Valley northwest of Prescott, Arizona. It is a place of unconventional beauty, set […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Horticultural crops, Livestock, Methods, Organic farming, Poultry, SW book, Vegetables

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