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MOM’s

June 29, 2012 By admin

An Enterprising Family Minnesota Organic Milk (MOM’s) is a successful family-run organic dairy that sells their dairy products to numerous Twin Cities food co-operatives and grocery stores. The Hartman’s –Mike, Diane and Mike’s brother, Roger, are the family behind this successful enterprise. “When we were planning this, we had 52 farms lined up to go,” […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business Development, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Direct: consumer buying clubs, Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Harvesting Nature, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic farming, Processing, Recycled Materials, Reused Materials, Starting a business

PastureLand Cooperative

June 29, 2012 By admin

Their Own Brand PastureLand Cooperative in southeast Minnesota is marketing cheese, butter, milk and ice cream made from the milk of grass-fed cows. Together with six Rochester area producers, the co-op aremarketing their own brand of cheese and milk. It wasn’t just low milk prices that prompted members of a Rochester-area cooperative to create their […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Branding, Branding: Label, Business - cooperative, Business Development, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Direct: farmers markets, Evaluating Consumer Interest, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Grass farming/free range, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Rotational Grazing, Starting a business, Value added

Sweet Meadow Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Leaving the City Behind Tucked away in a rural southern Minnesota town, a husband and wife have been transforming their way of life. Alice and Walter Field discovered Zumbrota, Minnesota in 1975, as they were driving along Highway 52 to visit a daughter in Shakopee. Shortly after, they happily purchased an 80-acre farm near Zumbrota […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - family, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Livestock, Mail/Telephone Order, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Non-GMO, Sheep and goats, Textile Arts

Arellano’s Fruit Market & Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Immigrant Farmers From Arellano’s Fresh Fruit Market stand, the 50 acres of apples, peaches, blueberries and a diverse selection of other fruits and vegetables entices even the most casual drive-by passengers, many en route to vacation homes or recreational activities on Lake Michigan just two miles from the 60 acre farm. The fruit stand is […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Direct to customer/user, Direct: farm stand, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Festivals, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Local foods systems, Mail/Telephone Order, Methods, Michigan, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), On-Farm Visits, Tourism and Recreation, Vegetables, Word-of-Mouth

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