A Personal Interest Larry Liepold is a pork producer from Okabena, Minnesota, and has served as president of the Minnesota Pork Producers Association (MPPA). In the summer of 2001, Larry and four other farm families had a deeply personal interest in seeing how pork was selling at Kowalski’s Market in Woodbury, Minnesota. The farmers ventured […]
Easy Bean Farm
Environmentally Positive Farming Easy Bean Farm is a 120 acre spread in the Chippewa River Valley near Montevideo. In addition to the 46 acres of grass pasture for rotational grazing of beef cattle, there are 12 acres of mixed and certified organic vegetables. Easy Bean markets most of its vegetable to 109 community supported agriculture […]
Hickory Nut Gap Farm – Spring House Meats
Fairview, North Carolina In business class their senior year of college, a North Carolina boy and a Kentucky girl crafted a partnership around 200 chickens, 50 turkeys and 360 acres of family farmland in the Appalachian Mountains. Within four years, they were married with a baby on the way, and owned 1,000 chickens, 350 turkeys, […]
Earth Elements Farm
Micro-farm Adds Value In More Ways Than One Lexington, Oklahoma Sometimes personal adversity and limited funds foster an environment of innovation and creativity. For April Harrington, the sole proprietor-farmer of Earth Elements Farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, it’s led to an agricultural operation that is practically 100 percent value-added. On 3/4-acre of her five acre farm, […]
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