Archive for the 'Family Farm' Category

More power to them…
From Business Daily Africa
February 21, 2008: For a long time, models for ending extreme poverty in Africa have been laden with hand-outs. Development activists however have strongly opposed giving free money, goods or services to the poor because the cycle of poverty starts as soon as the free part of the bargain [...]

This always sounded like something I’d like to learn more about.  Maybe you will too…
Do you want to learn to produce a constant supply fish and vegetables in an efficient, inexpensive smallscale system, which will prove to be an effective “helps ministry”outreach? If so, you will want to attend the Barrel Aquaponics Workshop held at [...]

Sell honey from your family farm? Here’s some interesting news about the Honey business in general.
From Honey Makes A Comeback As A Disease Fighter
Called Medihoney, it is made from a highly absorbent seaweed-based material, saturated with manuka honey, a particularly potent type that experts say kills germs and speeds healing. Also called Leptospermum honey, manuka [...]

As the costs of energy go up, harvesting more for with less expense  is critically important for family farms that are home businesses as well as residences. Intensive farming techniques become increasingly sought out at such times and so aquaculture is something people look to as  a possible alternative. Here’s an upcoming training seminar on [...]

It’s not just the American family farm in distress. French vineyard owners who hoped to pass the vineyard and family business on to their children are facing increasing distress. Suicide and threats of violence (and the actual use of dynamite) have already been associated with the three year old farming crisis.
From the Telegraph
Local wine producers [...]

This month Bob Evans, 89, founder of what would become the Bob Evans Farms product line and restaurant chain died at the Cleveland Clinic.
The homestead that housed the home business that would become the nationally known chain was in Rio Grande OH.
From BobEvans.com
Bob Evans, founder of the company, lived on the Bob Evans Farm in [...]

This is about a large operation to me.
But with the trend to local growers and locally produced food, could smaller home based farming operations use hydroponics to sell locally?
Or would the costs be too great?
Read about this Florida Hydroponic grower. His cucumber vines look like “Jack and the Beanstalk” they say.

Most people don’t think of agriculture when it comes to “work at home” business opportunities. But they can still be not only viable, but award winning. Here’s the story of Green Valley Dairy.
Green Valley Dairy presents Pennsylvania Nobel organic cheese, a rich, tangy, vintage Cheddar Cheese with the character and flavor that comes only from [...]

I’ve been playing hooky.
I guess you could say I’ve been doing “home business research”.
Amish home businesses.
In the spring and summer, the Amish locally often sell their excess produce and, in fact, plant enough for their own families (which are large) and whatever they think they can sell to passersby and friends they develop over the [...]

When the subsidies were proposed, everyone assumed 20% of the farms affected would close. Only 2% actually closed. The rest diversified and were strengthened. Gordon Riach should know… he’s been marketing New Zealand woolen products 54 years. When Jack Schultz interviewed him, here’s what he had to say:
From Boom Town USA
In 1984 New Zealand made [...]