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Viking Valley Hunt Club

June 29, 2012 By admin

From Harvesting to Hunting Les Bensch, a former computer company executive, and his wife, Bette, a technical writer, operate Viking Valley Hunt Club on 400 acres of pastureland in Ashby, located in central Minnesota. Les and Bette have turned a marginal farm into a hunting and shooting business they say earns five times the revenue […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Fish, Fishing, Fishing, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, Hunting, Hybrid Poplars, Minnesota, Native Prairie Grasses, Native Tree Species, Practices, Prairie Restoration, Tourism and Recreation, Wetland or Waterway Reconstruction, Wetland Restoration, Wildfoods, Wildlife Management

Shary’s Berries

June 29, 2012 By admin

It Takes a Strong Woman Although Shary’s Berries is small by conventional standards, there is more than enough work for Shary Zoff and her 10 year-old son, Sam. Located northeast of Duluth, in northern Minnesota on Homestead Road off of Highway 61, Shary’s Berries covers 40 acres. Roughly 10 of these acres are cleared with […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business Development - Ag specific, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Business to Business: Other, Community Development and Design, Community Interdependence, Direct: farmers markets, Direct: u-pick, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Northern Minnesota, Organic farming, Vegetables, Women-owned Enterprises

Prairie Farmers Cooperative

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Hot Dog Competes and is a Wiener When investing in ethanol was first proposed to state officials and bankers, many balked and questioned whether farmer-owned plants could compete with huge agribusiness processors. Despite the skepticism Prairie Farmers Cooperative built their own processing facility. Still, they wondered how could a family farmer hot dog compete […]

Filed Under: Business - cooperative, Business Development - Ag specific, Business planning, Business to Business, Business to Business: Other, Cooperation with other organizations, Developing new products, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Hogs, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Marketing Research, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Starting a business, Value added

National Eagle Center

June 29, 2012 By admin

Prime Habitat It is not uncommon to see nesting pairs of bald eagles in and near Wabasha, Minnesota. A prime habitat on the Mississippi River, in addition to the numerous neighboring lakes, makes this area of Minnesota a favorite residence for perhaps the most majestic and awe-inspiring of all birds. Eagle Watch, Inc., a small […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Birding, Birds, Canoeing & Boating, Children, Families and Learning, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Energy and Green Building, Environmental Consciousness, Environmental Education Programs, Environmental Learning, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Habitat Restoration, Historic Preservation, Minnesota, Program - government, Program - non-profit, Sustainable Living, Tourism and Recreation, Wildlife Management

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