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Mid-Missouri’s Poultry Processing Plant

June 29, 2012 By admin

Karen Machetta fell in love with agriculture in college when she learned to milk a cow in a dairy production course. She was a city girl who had spent summers on her grandma’s farm and still lovingly remembers every detail of the arrangement of nesting boxes in the hen house. Karen started her own farm […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Business - small (<20 employees), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Livestock, Methods, Missouri, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Poultry, Processing, Sheep and goats, Value added

Dodge Nature Center

June 29, 2012 By admin

Nature in the City Dodge Nature Center is a non-profit organization that operates a 320-acre nature preserve and model farm, located in West St. Paul just off State Highway 110. Establish in 1967 by Olivia Dodge, DNC provides outdoor education and environmental experiences to thousands of people each year. “Our biggest asset is that we […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Beef and Dairy, Biodiversity, Biodiversity, Children, Families and Learning, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Cultural Preservation, Diversified, Early Childhood, Enviromental Learning, Environmental Consciousness, Environmental Education Programs, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Habitat Restoration, Hiking & Cross-Country Skiing, Hogs, Lifelong Learning, Livestock, Management Concerns, Methods, Minnesota, On-Farm Visits, On-farm Workshops, Organic farming, Poultry, Prairie Restoration, Preserving Greenspace, Program - non-profit, Rural/urban connection, Schooling, Sheep and goats, Tourism and Recreation, Wildlife Management

Avalon Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Earning a Living from the Land, and Water Winchester, Kentucky Amongst the gently rolling hills of Winchester, Kentucky, just 15 miles outside of Lexington, is the 556 acre Avalon Farm, with beef cattle in the pasture, a greenhouse set aside for raising quail, twenty acres devoted to vegetable crops, and about twenty acres planted in […]

Filed Under: Aquaculture, Direct Marketing, Direct: farm stand, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Greenhouse Production, Horticultural crops, Kentucky, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Vegetables

Gieske’s Produce

June 29, 2012 By admin

Gieske’s Produce Dan and Gilda Gieske grow vegetables and raise chickens with their three children, Miriam, Benjamin and Rebecca, on an 85-acre farm just north of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The Gieskes moved to their farm in 1991 with their children’s health and safety in mind. They wanted a place where their children could eat vegetables […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Business - cooperative, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Buy Local, Composting, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: consumer buying clubs, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Human Health, Livestock, Low Input, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Pest Management, Poultry, Practices, Sheep and goats, Soil Quality, Soils & Compost, Vegetables

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