VALUE-ADDED: The season for harvesting and selling herbs is here.
If you’re selling herbs or other crops to make into value-added products, Mountain Rose Herbs is one of our favorite and only affiliate wholesale sources for bottles, jars, tins, tea bags, cotton muslin bags, misters, jugs, lip balm tubes, powder containers and lotion pumps and so [...]
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VALUE ADDED: The micro farm and small scale farming community – from blueberry u-picks to lavender farms, are integrating farm art as a value-added product. Some are selling farm images or farm logos on t-shirts, caps and totes. Others are actually turning walls of their farm markets or barns into mini rural art galleries with [...]
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MICRO FARMING HOW-TO – TRENDS – VALUE-ADDED: A micro-sized woodlot can be a valuable business asset for the eco-micro farm and those involved in small scale farming. ATTRA – National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service, PO Box 3657, Fayetteville, AR 72702; Phone: 1-800-346-9140 — FAX: (479) 442-9842, http://attra.ncat.org offers a publication entitled “Woodlot Enterprises.”
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MARKETING — TRENDS — VALUE-ADDED: In Montana, the Gallatin Valley school district as well as a half a dozen schools close to Bozeman are selling local farm products as fundraisers instead of the usual items such as candy. Some of the small scale farming products sold include honey, syrups, huckleberry and other preserves, fresh winter [...]
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MARKETING — TRENDS — AGRITOURISM — VALUE-ADDED: Corn harvest has begun. Here’s a digest of how several farmers make money farming a relatively low-cost crop – corn. One farmer gathered corn stalks and tied them with brown bailing twine and sold them as autumn, Thanksgiving and Halloween decorations. Dried shell corn as squirrel feed [...]
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