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Fieldfarms

June 29, 2012 By admin

Where creative ideas bloom Dexter, MI More than plants germinate in Janna Field’s greenhouses: creative Fieldfarms business ideas grow as well. With a foundation in growing flowers since 1994, Janna keeps things fresh and her own enthusiasm level high by adding new products and income diversification to the Fieldfarms mix, always focusing on things she […]

Filed Under: Business - self, Business to Business: Other, Conservation, Developing new products, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Michigan, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, On-farm Workshops, Policy Tools, Processing, Product Innovations, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vegetables

Peterson Farm: Linking Farming & Tourism

June 29, 2012 By admin

Corn that Twists and Turns Sever Peterson is a third generation farmer whose large, extended family helps him run a 1000 acre farm in the Minnesota River Valley in Eden Prairie. Vegetable farming has been a way of life for Sever’s family since his grandfather acquired the farm in the 1880s. “Since the turn of […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Corn & Soybeans, Corn Mazes, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, Tourism and Recreation, Vegetables

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