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Brainerd: A Community in Action

June 29, 2012 By admin

Well-Rounded Action in the Brainerd Lakes Area Competition can be transformed into cooperation. If you are looking for proof, look to the Brainerd Lakes Area. Through the creation of “Energizing Our Dreams-Mobilizing Our Gifts”; Brainerd, Baxter, and Nisswa residents’ vision for healthier communities, people are working together to optimize their many resources. The Brainerd Lakes […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Cycling, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Energy and Green Building, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Enviromental Learning, Environmental Consciousness, Environmental Education Programs, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Internet and High-tech, Lifelong Learning, Literary Arts, Minnesota, Passive Solar Design, Performing Arts, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Regional Arts, Schooling, Tourism and Recreation, Visual Arts

Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center

June 29, 2012 By admin

Nature’s Value Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center (ELC) is nestled in 2,000 acres of forests, inland lakes and rivers, on a ridge of land overlooking Lake Superior near Finland in southern Lake County, Minnesota. Gary Deason, the executive director of Wolf Ridge for the past 2 years, says that he and his staff “believe in […]

Filed Under: Canoeing & Boating, Children, Families and Learning, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Energy and Green Building, Enviromental Learning, Environmental Learning, Fuel Cells, Hiking & Cross-Country Skiing, Minnesota, Natural and Cultural History, Orienteering, Program - non-profit, Renewable Energy, Rock Climbing, Ropes Courses, Schooling, Solar, Tourism and Recreation, Wind

Sustainable Financing for Rural Minnesota

June 29, 2012 By admin

Put Your Money Where Your Farm Is The national economy has been thriving in recent years. Unfortunately, rural communities have often been left behind as corporate consolidations continue at an accelerating rate and as business activity has drifted to larger centers of commerce. To sustain Minnesota’s rural communities economically, the rural citizenry should be able […]

Filed Under: Business Development and Marketing, Community Development and Design, Financing, Investment Models for Rural Business, Minnesota, Program - community, Rural Business Development

Riverbend Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Narrowing the Gap Greg Reynolds, partner and co-owner of Riverbend Farm in Delano, MN, has always wanted to have a farm “The idea really came together when I was in high school,” explains Greg. “It was a time of the back-to-the-land movement, the first oil price hikes, and people were thinking about alternative and sustainability.” […]

Filed Under: Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development - Ag specific, Business planning, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Developing new products, Direct: Congregational Supported Agriculture, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Niche crops, Organic farming, Starting a business, Vegetables

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