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Angry Trout Café

June 29, 2012 By admin

Out of this World At first, one might think it is the succulent plates of fresh salmon and Lake Superior trout that draw people to the Angry Trout Café’s door in droves, but it’s not just a satisfied stomach that people leave with. It’s true, the food is out of this world, but customers also […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Business - family, Business - small (<20 employees), Business Development and Marketing, Business Planning, Buy Local, Composting, Conservation, Consumption and Purchasing, Culinary Arts, Energy and Green Building, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Fish, Fishing, Food and Beverage, Green Products, Harvesting Nature, Local foods systems, Marketing, Minnesota, MN Book, Northern Minnesota, Organic, Regional Arts, Responsible Purchasing, Restaurant or Cafe, Rural/urban connection, Sourced from Cooperative Enterprises, Tourism and Recreation, Waste Reduction

Heritage Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

A family-integrated agricultural operation Ridgeway, Pennsylvania Take a young couple firmly rooted in their dream of a rural lifestyle, raising their family on a small farm in the mountains. Add hard work, constant learning and innovation, a diversified approach to growing, five active kids, twenty years and a continued faithful love for the land and […]

Filed Under: Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Children, Families and Learning, Corn & Soybeans, Direct to Customer, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Education and Research, Energy and Green Building, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Food and Beverage, Food Production Enterprise, Fruits, Grass farming/free range, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Greenhouse Production, Herbs & flowers, Hogs, Horticultural crops, Internet/Website, Lifelong Learning, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Passive Solar Design, Pennsylvania, Poultry, Processing, Tourism and Recreation, Value added, Vegetables

The Mowry Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Staying Small to Keep Farming Lauden, Iowa “I’ve been farming for thirty-five years and I saw the writing on the wall when the hog market dropped in 1998 and prices for hogs fell to eight cents a pound,” explains Marlin Mowry , the fourth generation to farm his 350 acre family farm in Lowden, Iowa. […]

Filed Under: Animal Welfare, Antibiotic Free, Business - family, Business to Business: Cooperatives, Corn & Soybeans, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Field Crops, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Iowa, Livestock, Management Concerns, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods

All Paper Recycling, Inc.

June 29, 2012 By admin

Bye Bye By-Products! People living in houses built entirely out of recycled newspaper and phonebooks…using chairs that, if broken, can be smashed to a pulp only to be crafted into another chair…landfills never receiving another piece of paper again…welcome to the future as proposed by Stan Shetka, creator and head of All Paper Recycling, Inc. […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Arts and Culture, Biodegradable Materials, Biodegradeable, Business - small (<20 employees), Conservation, Conservation Aim, Consumption and Purchasing, Developing new products, Energy and Green Building, Energy Efficiency, Green or Natural Building/architecture, Green Products, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Product Innovations, Recycled Materials, Responsible Purchasing, Reused Materials, Reused/Recycled Materials, Rural/urban connection, Sustainable Use, Value added, Visual Arts

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