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Pahl’s Market

June 29, 2012 By admin

IPM for Premium Prices Gary Pahl, along with his brother Brian, operates Pahl’s Market, a fourth generation family operated vegetable farm, in Dakota County just south of the Twin Cities. The farm consists of 1,200 acres of vegetables which, during the 2001 season, included 515 acres of sweet corn, 125 acres of green beans, 50 […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct: farm stand, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Integrated Pest Management, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Pest Management, Pesticide Reduction, Practices, Processing, Value added, Vegetables

Midheaven Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Biodynamic Farming Dewane Morgan’s diverse Midheaven Farm is spread out on the sandy loam soils left by the glaciers that shaped northern Minnesota. Fields of alfalfa provide hat for the beef cows, and are also grazed by the cattle as part of a regular rotation. Native prairie grasses are also used extensively on the farm. […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Biodynamics, Business - family, Children, Families and Learning, Community Supported Agriculture, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Developing new products, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Exchanging Labor for Learning, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Food related, Hay & Alfalfa, Horticultural crops, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-GMO, Organic farming, Packaging, Processing, Rotational Grazing, Small Grains, Soil Quality, Soils & Compost, Value added, Vegetables, Youth, Youth Workers

Hiawatha’s Pantry

June 29, 2012 By admin

Where Do Food Dollars Go? Money flowing in and out of southeast Minnesota establishes economic patterns that either help or hurt the region’s economic well-being. Rural areas tend to import considerably more products/services than they export. As a result, more money flows out than flows in. Food purchasing patterns in southeast Minnesota suggest that outside […]

Filed Under: Buy Local, Community Development and Design, Consumption and Purchasing, Creating a More Localized Food System, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Minnesota, Program - non-profit, Program - university

Forest Mushrooms, Inc.

June 29, 2012 By admin

Building a Business Kevin Doyle has always been interested in botany and the natural world. He worked on a potato farm as a kid, studied biology and botany at St. John’s University, and studied the cultivation of peat bogs for fuel in Ireland. Then one day, while he was working on another bio-fuel project at […]

Filed Under: Biomass/biofuels, Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Business to Business: Other, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farmers markets, Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, Mushrooms, Renewable Energy, Soils & Compost

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