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Angelic Organics

June 29, 2012 By admin

Over One Thousand Customer Accounts Caledonia, IL About 75 miles from the booming metropolis of Chicago, Angelic Organics grows a dizzying array of vegetables and herbs on about 25 acres of the entire 90-acre farm. Their fresh vegetables and herbs are sold directly to over 1,000 customers who buy Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares in […]

Filed Under: Arts and Culture, Branding: Certified Organic, Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development - Ag specific, Business planning, Conservation, Corn & Soybeans, Cover Crops, Crop Rotation & Intercropping, Direct to Customer, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Diversification for Farmers, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Festivals, Field Crops, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Illinois, Local foods systems, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Non-GMO, Organic farming, Pesticide Reduction, Practices, Soils & Compost, Starting a business, Vegetables, Weed Control

Thirteen Mile Lamb & Wool Company

June 29, 2012 By admin

New Ranching Pioneers Belgrad, MT Dave Tyler and Becky Weed epitomize modern day pioneers, blending historic roots with 21st Century business savvy. Drawing from the rich history and inspiration of the early settlers’ love for the fertile Montana landscape and combining it with today’s entrepreneurial world of Internet-based businesses and rural FedEx delivery, Dave and […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business Development - Ag specific, Business Development and Marketing, Business Planning, Business planning, Direct Marketing, Direct to Customer, Diversification for Farmers, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Grass farming/free range, Hay & Alfalfa, Internet/Website, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Montana, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-GMO, Organic farming, Processing, Renewable Energy, Sheep and goats, Solar, Starting a business, Starting a Business, Value added, Wildlife, Word-of-Mouth

Adams Family Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Romancing the Farm Wilmington, Vermont From the bucolic setting on 210 acres of the sixth generation Adams Family Farm in Wilmington, Vermont, one couldn’t imagine more diverse — and integrated — enterprises creatively woven together to sustain the land and the farmers who farm it. Jill and Carl Mancivalano own and manage one of Vermont’s […]

Filed Under: Alpacas, Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Direct: u-pick, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Educational Opportunities, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Festivals, Festivals, Field Crops, Food and Beverage, Food Production Enterprise, Hay & Alfalfa, Heritage Tourism, Hogs, Internet/Website, Livestock, Llamas, Marketing - Ag specific, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), On-Farm Visits, On-farm Workshops, Packaging, Poultry, Processing, Sheep and goats, Textile Arts, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vermont

Bob Kauer’s Shared Harvest Community Garden

June 29, 2012 By admin

Growing More than Vegetables Durango, Colorado · By Charles E. Jones and Rose Houk When Bob Kauer purchased thirty-six acres of an historic farm east of Durango, Colorado, in 2001, he wanted to live a dream. He would have Gaited Morgan horses frolicking in pastures (which he got), and he would raise a bountiful organic […]

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