MARKETING — AGRITOURISM: The world is changing, and one good change is that farmers’ markets are growing in number and popularity. And farm marketing means keeping up with other changes as well. If you sell at farmers’ markets, consider the following methods for increasing farmers’ market sales.
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MARKETING: Most involved in small sustainable farming, especially micro eco-farming, are familiar with the community supported agriculture model of marketing their food crops. But micro eco-farming extends into raising sheep for fine wool to sell to handspinners, some who have been known to travel to Europe from the USA, just to check out the [...]
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MICRO ECO BUSINESS: Sustainable or organic herb gardening is a popular micro eco-farming venture. It allows the grower many selling outlets, from u-picks during the growing season to dried herbal products for a year-round cash flow. There are strict, changing and sometimes complicated restrictions about legally describing herbal health benefits unless you’re a legally [...]
MICRO FARMING HOW-TO – AGRITOURISM: Miniature sheep breeds are being used by those improving or starting a vineyard of sustainable or organic grapes, and wanting their grape growing to be diversified with other crops without spreading out to more land.
Miniature sheep such as the Babydoll Southdown, Icelandic, and Shetland miniature sheep do an [...]
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MICRO FARMING HOW-TO: An interesting past study recently unearthed sheds light on specific sunshine vitamin D3 and young chicks. Of three groups of chicks, one was fed no vitamin D. The second group was given synthetic vitamin D2. The third received natural vitamin D3 from cod liver oil. (Skin also makes vitamin D3 from [...]