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Red Fire Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Tomatoes as Trump Cards Granby, Massachussetts While growing over forty vegetable crops each season, it’s their nearly year-round abundance of award-winning tomatoes that have made Red Fire Farm, of Granby, Massachusetts, the talk of the valley. Growing crops on about 45 acres, owner Ryan Voiland loves his work because of the diversity of the skills […]

Filed Under: Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Mail/Telephone Order, Marketing - Ag specific, Massachussetts, Methods, Organic farming

Davison’s Country Store

June 29, 2012 By admin

At the turn of the twentieth century, a small farmstead country store opened in Carters Valley, Tennessee, to the rattle of horse-drawn buggies and the various goings on of the Davidson family farm on which the store was situated. Looney’s Store functioned as a means of trade and barter for local and traveling customers until […]

Filed Under: Appalachia, Arts and Culture, Direct to Customer, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Historic Preservation, Marketing - Ag specific, Tennessee, Tourism and Recreation

Dream of Wild Health

June 29, 2012 By admin

Collective Effort Dream of Wild Health is a collective effort to grow ancient seeds saved for generations by Native Americans. Some of these seeds are 800 to 2000 years old, and they contain within them the key to a healthy future. Sally Auger, Executive Director, began this project when she realized that the decline of […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Biodiversity, Biodiversity, Community Development and Design, Conservation, Cultural Preservation, Diversified, Education and Research, Educational Opportunities, Eldercare, Environment, econ, culture, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Healthcare, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Preserving Elder Knowledge, Program - university, Traditional Medicine and Nutrition, Vegetables

Gieske’s Produce

June 29, 2012 By admin

Gieske’s Produce Dan and Gilda Gieske grow vegetables and raise chickens with their three children, Miriam, Benjamin and Rebecca, on an 85-acre farm just north of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The Gieskes moved to their farm in 1991 with their children’s health and safety in mind. They wanted a place where their children could eat vegetables […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Business - cooperative, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Buy Local, Composting, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: consumer buying clubs, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Human Health, Livestock, Low Input, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Pest Management, Poultry, Practices, Sheep and goats, Soil Quality, Soils & Compost, Vegetables

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