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Minnesota Wild

June 29, 2012 By admin

Like Grandma Used to Make Jay Erckenbrack is the owner of Minnesota Wild in McGregor, Minnesota where his company’s line of fruit jams and syrups evoke the sensory memory of a visit to grandma’s. “Both my grandmothers made tremendous breads and rolls and I remember the fresh hot bread coming out of the oven and […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - family, Business to Business, Business to Business, Direct to customer/user, Direct to customer/user, Folk Arts, Food related, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Wild fruit

Elmwood Stock Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

If Elmwood Stock Farm were a song, and each family member improvised on a different instrument, then the weekends would sound like the chorus. Cecil Bell raises beef and tobacco, his son John raises vegetables, his son-in-law Mac Stone works off the farm and raises organic livestock with Cecil’s daughter Ann, who additionally markets the […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Branding: Certified Organic, Business - family, Business Development - Ag specific, Business planning, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Business to Business: Supermarkets, Cooperation with other organizations, Corn & Soybeans, Developing new products, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Direct: consumer buying clubs, Direct: farmers markets, Diversification for Farmers, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Food related, Fruits, Grass farming/free range, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Kentucky, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Non-GMO, Organic farming, Poultry, Processing, Sheep and goats, Starting a business, Value added, Vegetables

La Mision de San Miguel

June 29, 2012 By admin

Blending Culture and Commerce Patagonia, Arizona Part musical venue, part museum, part restaurant and social gathering spot, La Mision de San Miguel adds a high octane dose of culture, conversation, and commerce to the small rural Arizona town of Patagonia. The iconographic manifestation of a vision of local entrepreneur Cecilia San Miguel, La Mision de […]

Filed Under: Arizona, Branding, Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development and Marketing, Developing new products, Food and Beverage, Food related, Kellogg (non-food & ag), New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Restaurant or Cafe, Starting a Business, Tourism and Recreation

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

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