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Indian Springs Farmers Association

June 29, 2012 By admin

Ben Burkett awakes at5:30 in the morning to tend the land his family has farmed since the 1880s. In partnership with his daughter, he grows spinach, kale, mustards, peas, watermelon, squash, eggplant, sweet corn, okra and mixed organic culinary herbs on 150 acres, and pine timber on 80 of his 255-acre southern Mississippi farm. Ben […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Other, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Mississippi, Organic farming, Vegetables

Greentree Naturals

June 29, 2012 By admin

“My grandmother told me to never put all your eggs in one basket. This holds true for all aspects of marketing. For the small acreage farmer to succeed, we need to be diversified,” shares Diane Green, owner of Greentree Naturals, a small certified organic farm in rural northern Idaho she operates with her husband, Thom […]

Filed Under: Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business Development and Marketing, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Direct Marketing, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Education and Research, Environmental Education Programs, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Idaho, Internet/Website, Marketing, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Organic farming, Rural Business Development, Social Marketing, Vegetables

Woods’ Cider Mill

June 29, 2012 By admin

A family tradition Springfield, Vermont “In the 1960’s we used to sell big cider jelly jars to hippies, now we sell small jars to yuppies,” chuckles Willis Wood, owner of Wood’s Cider Mill. On land first settled by Willis’ family in 1798, he and his wife, Tina, carry on the diversified farm operation in Weathersfield, […]

Filed Under: Branding, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Direct Marketing, Direct: farm stand, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Livestock, Local foods systems, Mail/Telephone Order, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Sheep and goats, Value added, Vermont

BC Gardens

June 29, 2012 By admin

Healthy Produce Avid gardeners since childhood, Kathy Botten and Ruth Capp founded BC Gardens, an organic vegetable, herb, and flower garden in 1998. The “BC” in BC Gardens stands for “before chemicals” and “Botten, Capp”. Kathy and Ruth plant and work nearly 3+ acres at their home near Belgrade, Minnesota for commercial sale. “Gardening organically […]

Filed Under: Branding: Certified Organic, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Buy Local, Certification Standards, Community Supported Agriculture, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Cover Crops, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct to Customer, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green Products, Healthful Products, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic, Organic farming, Pesticide Reduction, Practices, Processing, Soil Quality, Sustainable Use, Value added, Vegetables

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