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Angelic Organics

June 29, 2012 By admin

Over One Thousand Customer Accounts Caledonia, IL About 75 miles from the booming metropolis of Chicago, Angelic Organics grows a dizzying array of vegetables and herbs on about 25 acres of the entire 90-acre farm. Their fresh vegetables and herbs are sold directly to over 1,000 customers who buy Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares in […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Branding: Certified Organic, Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development - Ag specific, Business planning, Conservation, Corn & Soybeans, Cover Crops, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct to Customer, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Diversification for Farmers, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Festivals, Field Crops, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Illinois, Local foods systems, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Non-GMO, Organic farming, Pesticide Reduction, Practices, Soils & Compost, Starting a business, Vegetables, Weed Control

Bossie’s Best

June 29, 2012 By admin

Home, Kansas Organic farming is a way of life that dates back 150 years in Nancy Vogelsberg-Busch’s family. Her great-grandfather homesteaded on the north central farm where Nancy was born. When Nancy’s father inherited the farm from her grandfather in the 1950s, it was on the condition of a promise never to use chemicals on […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Branding, Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Corn & Soybeans, Developing new products, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Food related, Grass farming/free range, Green Products, Hay & Alfalfa, Healthful Products, Kansas, Livestock, Local foods systems, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-GMO, Organic, Organic farming, Packaging, Processing, Rotational Grazing, Value added

Alderspring Ranch

June 29, 2012 By admin

Artisanal beef the grass fed way Salmon, Idaho Grass fed beef may appear hip today, given all the current publicawareness and media attention on the livestock industry, heightened by Mad Cow disease scares.But garner an understanding of Glenn nand Caryl Elzinga’s lifestyle and approach to ranching at Alderspring Ranch and one realizes this isn’t a […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Biodiversity, Business - family, Children, Families and Learning, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Direct to Customer, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Homeschooling, Idaho, Internet/Website, Livestock, Local foods systems, Management Concerns, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-GMO, Pest Management, Processing, Rotational Grazing, Schooling, Value added, Water Quality, Water Quality

Grow Alabama

June 29, 2012 By admin

Birmingham, Alabama Jerry Spencer is an entrepreneur. So it was with a sense of adventure that this chiropractor of 20 years–a man who had never in his life grown a single tomato plant much less a garden–dug up his front lawn one day and planted a vegetable plot far bigger than what would feed his […]

Filed Under: Alabama, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Livestock, Local foods systems, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Poultry, Program - non-profit, Vegetables

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