- Whole Foods Offers Local Producer Loan Program
If you are a “Family Farm”, Whole Foods offers a Local Producer Loan Program! If you’re a “Family Farm” or Small Business, you may not only find the money you need to expand, you may find the marketplace to help you expand!
Whole Foods Market’s Local Producer Loan Program (LPLP) provides up to $10 million in [...]
- Your Gardening Hobby Can Make You Money
There’s a sudden interest in gardening these days… and as a result people are wondering if they can turn their gardening aspirations into a gardening business.
Perhaps you can relate to this. Probably one of the most enjoyable thing for gardeners is watching new plants grow. I love it when one of my plants I grew [...] - The Modern Homestead site by Bob Senz
Is part of your home business dream to be work from home on a small family homestead?
Then you may want to check out the resources at The Modern Homestead site!
I was just looking for some information on how to build a greenhouse (a cheap one!) when I ran across Bob Senz’ article on how to [...] - It’s Time To Think About Your Garden …
Yes, it’s time to think about your garden. Where I live people are tilling space for their gardens right now. I’m planning to go out and clean up my square foot gardening boxes with their “special mix” of ingredients.
Where I live, it’s time to consider setting out onion sets right now… and thinking about setting [...] - “SWAT” Team Raids Home Based Co-Op – Over Silly Licensing Issue
Ohio must be the state for Government crazies these days. “Joe the Plumber” was the first to get the as yet lightly punished police state treatment after he dared question the Presidential candidate Obama, and now this a home based co-op is raided by heavy hande, black clad dolts with weapons raised – over a [...]
- Family Farm Gives Free Food To 40,000
Following the Biblical injunction of Leviticus 19:9-10, a Colorado family farm offered people free food.
They originally scheduled two days of “gleaning” – allowing free picking of vegetables left over after the commercial harvest of their potato, carrot, and leek crops.
They expected 5,000 or perhaps 10,000. 40,000 showed up!
Though a 600 acre farm isn’t you’re average [...] - Has Organic Food Lost It’s Marketing Magic?
Has Organic Food Lost it’s Marketing Magic? According to this report, yes.
But take note that they are talking primarily about high overhead super market venues.
Local farms that sell regionally and directly to customers have an advantage here.
1. They build relationships with their customers
2. They are getting the retail and middleman’s mark up
3. They are not [...] - The Friendship Egg And A Marketing Lesson
Becky McCray alerted me to this story and G.L. Hoffman’s comments.
It reminded of the “Where’s George?” website that lets people track where their dollar bills have been by the bill’s serial number.
This little country girl wrote her name and address on an egg sold at the town market. The egg ended up on a [...] - Americans Are Buying Organic Farm Shares
If an organic family farm is your idea of the perfect home business, here’s good news, Americans are buying shares in organic family farms.
I have family members, for instance, who love raw milk… some to drink, some to make kefir, a “probiotic” rich fermented milk product.
Where they live, it’s illegal to sell “raw”milk directly [...] - The Law Of Unintended Consequences Hurts Aspiring Agriculturalists
One work at home business trend that’s booming is the family farm. There’s just one problem, the law of unintended consequences strikes, but don’t worry… a politician at least got a photo op out of it thanks to the latest Farm Bill.
The farm bills of the past, and this new farm bill are not any [...]
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