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Primus Fresh-Air-Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Improving the Environment Just north of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, a few miles off Highway 27, you will find the lush green landscape of Marty and Georgiann’s 198-acre Primus Fresh-Air-Farm. Here they live with their four children, Meagan, Joshua, Benjamin and Abbeylyn where they are dedicated to the idea of improving the environment by keeping the […]

Filed Under: Air Quality, Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farm stand, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Livestock, Low Input, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Pest Management, Poultry, Practices, Responsible Purchasing, Rotational Grazing, Soil Quality

North House Folk School

June 29, 2012 By admin

Preserving History for a Better Future “North House Folk School was created to promote and preserve knowledge, skills, and crafts of the past and present, and through them, to better understand the future and our role in it. The mission of the North House Folk School is to enrich the lives of individuals and build […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Children, Families and Learning, Cooking Classes, Culinary Arts, Dance, Festivals, Historic Preservation, Lifelong Learning, Minnesota, Music, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-profit Planning & Development, Performing Arts, Program - non-profit, Regional Arts

Medicinal Herbs on the Urban Fringe

June 29, 2012 By admin

Unique Income Source Renne Soberg was raised on his family’s dairy farm in Lakeville, Minnesota, where his family have been farming since the 1890s. The farm, greatly reduced in size after surviving many permutations, is now under Renne’s care. After working in Washington for the USDA, Renne returned to Minnesota to finish his education, and […]

Filed Under: Birds, Business - cooperative, Business Development, Business planning, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Developing new products, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Human Health, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Organic farming, Preserving Greenspace, Processing, Starting a business, Value added

Hidden Stream Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Partnership Between Generations In Elgin, Minnesota a partnership has begun, a partnership of two generations. Everett Koenig, a winner of the Conservation Farmer of the Year in Wabasha County award, has been farming 180 acres near Elgin since 1961. In the 1970’s Everett made a conscious choice to move away from the use of […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business to Business: Other, Buy Local, Consumption and Purchasing, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Internet/Website, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Poultry, Rotational Grazing

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