Home, Kansas Organic farming is a way of life that dates back 150 years in Nancy Vogelsberg-Busch’s family. Her great-grandfather homesteaded on the north central farm where Nancy was born. When Nancy’s father inherited the farm from her grandfather in the 1950s, it was on the condition of a promise never to use chemicals on […]
Pahl’s Market
IPM for Premium Prices Gary Pahl, along with his brother Brian, operates Pahl’s Market, a fourth generation family operated vegetable farm, in Dakota County just south of the Twin Cities. The farm consists of 1,200 acres of vegetables which, during the 2001 season, included 515 acres of sweet corn, 125 acres of green beans, 50 […]
Hiawatha Sustainable Woods Co-op
Environmentally Responsible Forestry The Hiawatha Sustainable Woods Cooperative (HSWC) is a timber management, processing, and marketing cooperative of local forest owners. Its purpose is to maximize the long-term aesthetic, ecological, economic, and recreational benefits from area forest resources. The Cooperative stresses environmentally responsible forestry which includes: * education; * professionally-trained foresters and loggers; * locally […]
Fieldfarms
Where creative ideas bloom Dexter, MI More than plants germinate in Janna Field’s greenhouses: creative Fieldfarms business ideas grow as well. With a foundation in growing flowers since 1994, Janna keeps things fresh and her own enthusiasm level high by adding new products and income diversification to the Fieldfarms mix, always focusing on things she […]