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All Paper Recycling, Inc.

June 29, 2012 By admin

Bye Bye By-Products! People living in houses built entirely out of recycled newspaper and phonebooks…using chairs that, if broken, can be smashed to a pulp only to be crafted into another chair…landfills never receiving another piece of paper again…welcome to the future as proposed by Stan Shetka, creator and head of All Paper Recycling, Inc. […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Biodegradable Materials, Biodegradeable, Business - small (<20 employees), Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Developing new products, Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Green Products, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Product Innovations, Recycled Materials, Responsible Purchasing, Reused Materials, Reused/Recycled Materials, Rural/urban connection, Sustainable Use, Value added, Visual Arts

Rumbleway Farm: Delivering a Taste of the Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

From farm to feast, Rumbleway Farm delivers a menu of diversified products and business strategies, with owners Robin and Mark Way continuing the legacy of their historic farmstead outside Conowingo in northeastern Maryland by reinventing itself for today’s marketplace. Mark grew up in a farming family, while Robin was a city girl from Philadelphia. Both […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Branding: Heirloom, Business - family, Business Development and Marketing, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Livestock, Mail/Telephone Order, Marketing, Marketing - Ag specific, Maryland, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Organic farming, Poultry, Processing, Product Innovations, Sheep and goats, Social Marketing: Linking Consumers to Producers, Value added, Word-of-Mouth

Bow View Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Family Farm Rooted in Diversity Crofton, Nebraska Nestled in the rolling countryside of northeast Nebraska, farmer Curt Arens along with his wife, Donna, continues earning his livelihood from the family land first purchased by his great grandfather in 1914, sprinkling sunflower seeds, Christmas trees and other diversification into the growing mix. Even though his young […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Corn & Soybeans, Direct: u-pick, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Hay & Alfalfa, Hogs, Internet/Website, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Native Tree Species, Nebraska, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Rotational Grazing, Sunflowers, Value added

RBJ Spreadable Fruit

June 29, 2012 By admin

Grandma’s Recipe Goes Global Kim Samuelson, owner and operator of RBJ Family Restaurant in Crookston, Minnesota, has worked in the restaurant industry since she was 9 years old. Kim has run the restaurant, named after her father, Roger Bernard Johnson, since 1987. In the early 1990’s, Kim created a single batch of her grandmother’s recipe […]

Filed Under: Branding, Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Community Development and Design, Developing new products, Direct to customer/user, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Food related, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Packaging, Processing, Value added

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