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Entrepreneurial Spirit Drives Diverse Family Enterprises

June 29, 2012 By admin

Hell Creek Music & More, the Makoshika Dinosaur Museum and E-Tana Glendive, MT Most businesses can sum up their core focus in a sentence or two. For the creative Bury family in Glendive, Montana, you better pull up a chair and sit a spell. Originally from Seattle, Christie and Steve Bury, along with their teenage […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Business - family, Business Development and Marketing, Business Retention and Development, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Marketing, Montana, Music, Natural and Cultural History, Performing Arts, Program - non-profit, Rural Business Development, Small Business, Social Marketing, Social Marketing: Linking Consumers to Producers, Starting a Business, Tourism and Recreation, Youth, Youth Businesses

Experiment in Rural Cooperation

June 29, 2012 By admin

Livestock Farming in Southeast Minnesota The number of animal livestock farms in southeast Minnesota has been decreasing in recent years. A major reason has been troublesome marketplace economics. Farmers, in need of economically viable alternatives, have changed over to corn and soybean crops to avoid the dramatic market downturns. Unfortunately, the shift from livestock farming […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Hogs, Livestock, Minnesota, Processing, Program - non-profit, Program - university

Mo’ Better Food and The Mandela Farmers Market

June 29, 2012 By admin

West Oakland, California In 1999, a class-action suit by America’s black farmers won what some called the biggest civil rights award in United States history. The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., ruled that the USDA had systematically discriminated against black farmers in awarding loans and other government assistance. The judge estimated that $2 billion […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, California, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Food and Beverage, Fruits, Horticultural crops, Local foods systems, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Nuts, Program - non-profit, Tourism and Recreation

The Eagle Bluff Environmental Education Center

June 29, 2012 By admin

Teaching Life Skills Eagle Bluff Environmental Education Center (EBEEC) has been quietly fostering respect for the environment and teaching students and visitors life skills for nearly 20 years. Beginning as the Forest Resource Center, the site became known as Eagle Bluff in 1997, and has been growing to meet the expanded demand for classes ever […]

Filed Under: Children, Families and Learning, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Enviromental Learning, Environmental Learning, Minnesota, Program - non-profit, Schooling, Tourism and Recreation

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