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Diné Be’iina and the Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land

June 29, 2012 By admin

Sheep Is Life Navajo Nation, Arizona · By Gary Paul Nabhan When one first sees a flock of Navajo Churro sheep moving across the sage-covered flats of Navajo Nation lands, it is easy to imagine that they have been here, adapting to this land, since time immemorial. Their colors – buffs, browns, silvery-blues, cream, and […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - small (<20 employees), Cultural Preservation, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Folk Arts, Livestock, Sheep and goats, SW book, Textile Arts

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

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