Archive for the 'Family Farm' Category

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 [...]

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 [...]