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Big Sky Business Runs On eBay Energy

June 29, 2012 By admin

Brockway Mercantile Brockway, Montana When most folks buy something off eBay, it arrives through the mail in a box. Not for Brigitte and Doug Dubin – e-Bay connected them with a new home and lifestyle. When they purchased the Brockway Mercantile building off eBay, they traded an urban smog-filled Los Angeles lifestyle for starry skies, […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business Development and Marketing, Business Planning, Business Retention and Development, Community Development and Design, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Internet and High-tech, Internet/Website, Marketing - Ag specific, Montana, Small Business, Starting a Business

Dancing Winds Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Tale of Two Goats Mary Doerr did not intend to be a goat farmer. When she purchased Dancing Winds Farm, which lies on 20 acres in Kenyon, Minnesota, in 1985, her plan was to grow organic produce. She carried through with her organic produce, but only for a short while. Then, along came Ida […]

Filed Under: Bed & Breakfast, Business - family, Direct to customer/user, Direct: farmers markets, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Farm Stays, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Heritage Tourism, Hospitality, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), On-Farm Visits, Processing, Rotational Grazing, Sheep and goats, Tourism and Recreation, Value added

Gardens of Eagan

June 29, 2012 By admin

Diversifying the Farm Atina and Martin Diffley have earned a lot of loyal customers at their organic fruit and vegetable stand in Eagan. Although the stand is currently in the middle of a confusing array of road construction signs and detours, the taste of their produce keeps people coming back for more. The Diffley’s have […]

Filed Under: Branding, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Buy Local, Children, Families and Learning, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farm stand, Diversified, Exchanging Labor for Learning, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Organic farming, Vegetables, Youth

Fae Ridge Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

On Fae Ridge Farm, just outside of Iowa City, Janette Ryan-Busch raises organic vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, goats, sheep, llamas, and angora rabbits. Geese and ducks provide insect control, and chickens help with the decom-position of garden waste. Janette is known locally as the Queen of Basil, raising ten to fifteen thousand basil plants annually. […]

Filed Under: Business to Business: Cooperatives, Consumption and Purchasing, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Green Products, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Iowa, Livestock, Llamas, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic, Organic farming, Poultry, Processing, Sheep and goats, Value added, Vegetables

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