Archive for the 'Family Farm' Category

The fate of the Raw Milk Industry may hinge on these California hearings. Family farmers can sometimes earn a good living from people wanting to buy raw milk. In some cases they can’t sell raw milk per se, but they can sell shares of a cow that produces the raw milk and shareholders can come [...]

I really didn’t believe this when I saw it because I wasn’t under the impression the cows had to adjust to Daylight Savings Time… but now that the farmers are milking earlier, they don’t like adjusting to the farmers much. I guess cows like sleeping in too… “From our standpoint, it gives us an extra [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]