New Horizons with Attractive Alpacas Chardon, Ohio “What business enables you to be around the cutest animals on earth all day and run a financially viable enterprise?” rhetorically asks Donna Christley, co-owner of Moonlight Meadow Farm in Chardon, Ohio. Her enthusiastic reply: alpacas. “Folks tend to get hooked on alpacas from the first time they […]
Nature-Inspired Landscape Solutions
Since its humble beginnings in 1975 processing prairie seed in an old dairy barn, Applied Ecological Services (AES) has blossomed into a diversifıed company, carrying on its commitment to science-based ecological restoration and land stewardship. Founder and owner Steve Apfelbaum began this endeavor as a way of putting into practice Aldo Leopold’s “land ethic.” Today, […]
Aspelund Family Farm
Adding Value to the Farm In 1997, Nancy Aspelund of Aspelund Family Farm won a Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education (SARE) grant that she and her husband, Dean, called “Diversifying a Small Crop Farm with Hogs and Poultry on Pasture, Apple Trees and Plums.” Before the grant, the Aspelund’s dreamed about how to make their […]
Earthen Path Organic Farm
A Seasonal Dance On 14 acres in the hill and coulee country above the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota, a seasonal dance with the forces of nature takes place. Earthen Path Organic Farm weathers the storms, continues to flourish, and produces organic fruits and vegetables that connect the cycles of planting and harvesting with local […]
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