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Papa Bear’s Plantation

June 29, 2012 By admin

Papa Bear’s Plantation: Many Hats and licenses Ocala, Florida Ask Mark Wagner about the best insurance to survive Florida hurricane season: wear more than one hat. Pecan, sheep and small animal farmer. Small animal auctioneer. Licensed nuisance trapper. These are some of the hats Mark wears on his farm, Papa Bear’s Plantation outside Ocala, Florida. […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Direct: farm stand, Direct: u-pick, Diversified, Emus, Event rental, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Florida, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Nuts, Organic farming, Poultry, Tourism and Recreation

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

Heritage Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A family-integrated agricultural operation Ridgeway, Pennsylvania Take a young couple firmly rooted in their dream of a rural lifestyle, raising their family on a small farm in the mountains. Add hard work, constant learning and innovation, a diversified approach to growing, five active kids, twenty years and a continued faithful love for the land and […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Children, Families and Learning, Corn & Soybeans, Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Education and Research, Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Food and Beverage, Food Production Enterprise, Fruits, Grass farming/free range, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Hogs, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Lifelong Learning, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Passive Solar Design, Pennsylvania, Poultry, Processing, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vegetables

Eagle View Family Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Time for a Change In Lake City, Minnesota, Dennis and Sue Rabe are taking an alternative approach to farming. After finding that they were working more hours on the farm and getting less for their input, it was time for a change. As Dennis said, “the idea of a family farm had been lost. We […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Buy Local, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farmers markets, Erosion Control and Redirection, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Hogs, Livestock, Mail/Telephone Order, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, Rotational Grazing, Soils & Compost

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