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Angelic Organics

June 29, 2012 By admin

Over One Thousand Customer Accounts Caledonia, IL About 75 miles from the booming metropolis of Chicago, Angelic Organics grows a dizzying array of vegetables and herbs on about 25 acres of the entire 90-acre farm. Their fresh vegetables and herbs are sold directly to over 1,000 customers who buy Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares in […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Branding: Certified Organic, Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development - Ag specific, Business planning, Conservation, Corn & Soybeans, Cover Crops, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct to Customer, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Diversification for Farmers, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Festivals, Field Crops, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Illinois, Local foods systems, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Non-GMO, Organic farming, Pesticide Reduction, Practices, Soils & Compost, Starting a business, Vegetables, Weed Control

Circle G Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Place to Live and Work Paul and Ramona Garver’s farm lies on the South Dakota border, three miles from Hendricks, Minnesota. After years of leasing a ranch in Montana, the Garvers decided they wanted to own the land on which they live and work. In 1996, Paul and Ramona purchased the 80 acres of […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Branding: Food Alliance Certified, Business - family, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct Marketing, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Horticultural crops, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Poultry, Sheep and goats, Small Grains, Soils & Compost, Vegetables

Willow Lake Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Learning to See Tony Thompson has lived on his family’s Willow Lake Farm near Windom, Minnesota all of his life. Although he holds a bachelor’s degree in agronomy and has nearly completed his Master’s degree in Plant Community Ecology from the University of Montana, at Bozeman, he never really left home for school. “I went […]

Filed Under: Biodiversity, Biodiversity, Birds, Business - family, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Corn & Soybeans, Cover Crops, Developing new products, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, Management Concerns, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Practices, Prairie Restoration, Prairie Seeds, Soil Quality, Soils & Compost, Waste Reduction, Water Quality, Water Quality, Wetland or Waterway Reconstruction

Round River Farm – Living Lightly

June 29, 2012 By admin

Sustainable Living in the North Woods David and Lise Abazs, and their sons Colby and Tremayne, run Round River Farm and Shalom Seed Sanctuary, which are nestled in the Sawtooth Mountains on the North Shore of Lake Superior. David and Lise Abazs grew up wanting to farm. They met in college, and during their last […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business Development - Ag specific, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Developing new products, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farm stand, Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Fruits, Greenhouse Production, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Practices, Rainwater collection and Recycling, Renewable Energy, Soil Quality, Soils & Compost, Solar, Starting a business, Vegetables, Wind

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