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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

Forest Mushrooms, Inc.

June 29, 2012 By admin

Building a Business Kevin Doyle has always been interested in botany and the natural world. He worked on a potato farm as a kid, studied biology and botany at St. John’s University, and studied the cultivation of peat bogs for fuel in Ireland. Then one day, while he was working on another bio-fuel project at […]

Filed Under: Biomass/biofuels, Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to Business: Other, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farmers markets, Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, Mushrooms, Renewable Energy, Soils & Compost

Tuscaloosa CSA

June 29, 2012 By admin

Coker, Alabama In the Deep South, folks are pretty independent-minded, according to Jean Mills of Coker, a town on the western edge of Alabama just outside of Tuscaloosa. So when she and partner Carol Eichelberger enlisted neighbors and friends to come together and be part of their farm community, it was something of a revolutionary […]

Filed Under: Alabama, Business - cooperative, Business Development - Ag specific, Community Cooperative, Community Development and Design, Community-Based Approach, Conservation, Cooperation with other organizations, Cover Crops, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Marketing Research, Methods, Organic farming, Pest Management, Practices, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Rural Business Development, Soils & Compost, Vegetables

Food Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Beautiful Living Just southwest of Duluth, the Fisher-Merritt farm, Food Farm, is a carefully plotted set of fields set around a collection of small greenhouses, chicken coops, and a climate-controlled vegetable storage building. John Fisher-Merritt and sons Janaki and Benjamin, work the farm along with long-time employee Dave Hanlon. Jane Fisher-Merritt has an art studio […]

Filed Under: Birds, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Organic farming, Pest Management, Poultry, Soils & Compost

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