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Minnesota Agroforestry Cooperative

June 29, 2012 By admin

Educating Growers and Buyers The Minnesota Agroforestry Cooperative (MAC), a producer-owned cooperative, focuses on the economic gain and stability of the producer. Its goal is to collectively raise and market agro-forestry products for profit. The Co-op also aims to educate prospective growers about hybrid poplars and create public awareness about the advantages of agricultural fiber […]

Filed Under: Agroforestry, Air Quality, Business - cooperative, Business Development, Business planning, Business to Business, Conservation, Conservation Aim, Education, Erosion Control and Redirection, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Forestry, Forestry Cooperatives, Harvesting Nature, Hybrid Poplars, Methods, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Non-food ag-related, Producer Capitalization Plan, Soil Quality, Starting a business, Water Quality

Mille Lacs Indian Museum

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Confluence of Old and New Ken Weyaus, Sr., can teach us how very close we still are to the traditional Ojibwe that lives, hunted, and fished in Minnesota just decades ago. As he leads tours through the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Historic Site on the western shore of Lake Mille Lacs, he will […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Cultural Preservation, Educational Opportunities, Energy and Green Building, Folk Arts, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Heritage Tourism, Historic Preservation, Interactive, Iowa, Minnesota, Performing Arts, Program - community, Program - non-profit, Reflecting Indigenous Design, Textile Arts, Tourism and Recreation

Indian Springs Farmers Association

June 29, 2012 By admin

Ben Burkett awakes at5:30 in the morning to tend the land his family has farmed since the 1880s. In partnership with his daughter, he grows spinach, kale, mustards, peas, watermelon, squash, eggplant, sweet corn, okra and mixed organic culinary herbs on 150 acres, and pine timber on 80 of his 255-acre southern Mississippi farm. Ben […]

Filed Under: Business - family, Business - mid-sized (>21 employees), Business to Business: Cooperatives, Business to Business: Other, Direct: farmers markets, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Herbs & flowers, Horticultural crops, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Mississippi, Organic farming, Vegetables

The Alpaca Company

June 29, 2012 By admin

At the tail end of a fulfilling career at the University of Missouri hospital as a medical technologist, Diane Peckham was ready for retirement in the country. She and her husband Nick waved goodbye to the last of their three children to leave for college and packed up the household for 50 acres of woods, […]

Filed Under: Alpacas, Business - self, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Livestock, Missouri, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Processing, Value added

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