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Sno Pac Foods

June 29, 2012 By admin

World’s First Pete Gengler is happy that his family and its company, Sno Pac Foods, Inc., got into the organic food business early. Touting itself as the world’s first grower/processor of frozen organic vegetables, Sno Pac, located in Caledonia, Minnesota, is in its third generation of ownership. Pete Gengler’s mother, Darlene, is the last of […]

Filed Under: Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Business Development, Business planning, Business to Business, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Natural Food Stores, Business to Business: Other, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Developing new products, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Packaging, Starting a business, Value added, Vegetables

Kay’s Naturals

June 29, 2012 By admin

Powerhouse Snacks When a local pretzel manufacturer went bankrupt, Tom Condon, a Clara City farmer and entrepreneur who owned the plant’s building, worried about the town of 1500 losing critical manufacturing jobs. Tom was a client of local businessman, Massoud Kazemzadeh, and sought his help in saving the plant, knowing Massoud had product-development expertise and […]

Filed Under: Branding, Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Business Development, Business Retention and Development, Community Development and Design, Consumption and Purchasing, Developing new products, Development of Website, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Food related, Healthful Products, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Starting a business

Nesenkeag Cooperative Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Fresh, Local and Organic Food For All Litchfield, New Hampshire On one 65 acre farm in Litchfield, New Hampshire, some of the richest and most fertile land in the United States supports the growth of diversified niche food crops — seventy in all, but especially the eagerly awaited pea tendrils and salad greens — that […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Business - cooperative, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Conservation, Developing new products, Direct Marketing, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: hospitals, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Educational Opportunities, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New Hampshire, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Niche crops, Policy Tools, Public Policy, Vegetables

Round River Farm – Living Lightly

June 29, 2012 By admin

Sustainable Living in the North Woods David and Lise Abazs, and their sons Colby and Tremayne, run Round River Farm and Shalom Seed Sanctuary, which are nestled in the Sawtooth Mountains on the North Shore of Lake Superior. David and Lise Abazs grew up wanting to farm. They met in college, and during their last […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business Development - Ag specific, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Developing new products, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Direct: farm stand, Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food related, Fruits, Greenhouse Production, Horticultural crops, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Practices, Rainwater collection and Recycling, Renewable Energy, Soil Quality, Soils & Compost, Solar, Starting a business, Vegetables, Wind

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