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Waseca: Picking Up Momentum

June 29, 2012 By admin

Welcome to Waseca In the wake of Blandin Community Investment Partnership (BCIP) funding approval, over 100 Waseca residents discussed how they could meet goals vital to the health of their community. “We are really picking up momentum,” said Julie Linnihan of the City of Waseca. Care for community-the people and the land-is behind the energy […]

Filed Under: Community Development and Design, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Minnesota, Program - community, Programs to Welcome Increasing Cultural Diversity, Public Planning, Public Policy, Water Quality

Viking Valley Hunt Club

June 29, 2012 By admin

From Harvesting to Hunting Les Bensch, a former computer company executive, and his wife, Bette, a technical writer, operate Viking Valley Hunt Club on 400 acres of pastureland in Ashby, located in central Minnesota. Les and Bette have turned a marginal farm into a hunting and shooting business they say earns five times the revenue […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Ecotourism, Agri-tourism and Educational Travel, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Fish, Fishing, Fishing, Gathering and Hunting, Harvesting Nature, Hunting, Hybrid Poplars, Minnesota, Native Prairie Grasses, Native Tree Species, Practices, Prairie Restoration, Tourism and Recreation, Wetland or Waterway Reconstruction, Wetland Restoration, Wildfoods, Wildlife Management

Valley Creek Community Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Dream Come True In Prairie Creek, local citizens are realizing their dreams of growing their own produce and their ideals of education and community. Valley Creek Community Farm is a Community Supported Agricultural (CSA) endeavor that materialized out of the partnership between several local residents. CSA members, Todd Lein and Anne Klawiter, rent land […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Children, Families and Learning, Direct: Community Supported Agriculture, Education and Research, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Minnesota, Organic farming, Program - community, Schooling, Vegetables

Valley Angus Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Pasture Raised Grazing livestock has proved to be a great match for Dan and Cara Miller. After purchasing their 120-acre farm near Spring Valley, Minnesota seven years ago, they now custom graze heifers and raise their own herd of registered Angus beef cattle. Dan and Cara’s farm was originally marked as Conservation Reserve Program land, […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business Development - Ag specific, Education and Research, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Marketing Research, Methods, Minnesota, Overhead Reduction, Rotational Grazing

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