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New Hope Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Value-added products bloom on the prairie Rapid City, South Dakota Zita Kwartek knows a good thing when she sees it. “When I first saw this farm, a double rainbow appeared, a sign to me that this special place would provide inspiration and a livelihood from the land. That’s when I gave it the name, ‘New […]

Filed Under: Business - self, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic farming, Product Innovations, Soils & Compost, South Dakota, Value added, Vegetables

Adams Family Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Romancing the Farm Wilmington, Vermont From the bucolic setting on 210 acres of the sixth generation Adams Family Farm in Wilmington, Vermont, one couldn’t imagine more diverse — and integrated — enterprises creatively woven together to sustain the land and the farmers who farm it. Jill and Carl Mancivalano own and manage one of Vermont’s […]

Filed Under: Alpacas, Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Direct: u-pick, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Educational Opportunities, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Festivals, Festivals, Field Crops, Food and Beverage, Food Production Enterprise, Hay & Alfalfa, Heritage Tourism, Hogs, Internet/Website, Livestock, Llamas, Marketing - Ag specific, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), On-Farm Visits, On-farm Workshops, Packaging, Poultry, Processing, Sheep and goats, Textile Arts, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vermont

Pepin Heights Orchard

June 29, 2012 By admin

Evolution In 1978, Dennis Courtier bought Pepin Heights Orchard, a small apple farm on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River in Lake City Minnesota. More than 20 years later, using farming practices that call for less pesticide use and an intimate understanding of nature’s balance, the operation now produces 20% of all the apples grown […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Conservation, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Pest Management, Pesticide Reduction, Practices, Processing, Value added

Haubenschild Family Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Long-Time Dream Fulfilled Dennis and Marsha Haubenschild run their family dairy farm in Princeton, Minnesota. For years they toyed with the idea of turning manure waste into a useful energy source but, until recently, they rejected the idea because they associated it with high risks and costs. However, when their sons, Tom and Bryan, […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Biomass/biofuels, Business - family, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Developing new products, Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Livestock, Management Concerns, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Processing, Renewable Energy, Soils & Compost, Value added, Waste Treatment, Water Quality

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