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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MICRO ECO-BUSINESS: Here’s a quick update on our full story of a mini-renewal of the original USA Homesteading Act where land or lots in or near small rural towns are being given away as an incentive to repopulate rural communities.
Many states are participating, and here’s a link specifically to the Kansas land giveaway. See [...]
MICRO ECO BUSINESS: Besides the organic apple-a-day, The Center for the Micro Eco-Farming Movement is working on a report on quality and affordable health care insurance for small business farms — urban to rural.
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TRENDS: Micro farming can look towards trends that will effect other small businesses to guide their way.
This quote is from the Trends Research Institute, which accurately predicted many events, including the current growth in micro farming:
“Craftspeople and small manufacturers that can establish a reputation for quality products will be able to build thriving [...]
TRENDS: Four grain growing trends for small acreage farming to watch for are perennial grains, heirloom grains, locally produced grains, and sprouted grain value-added products.
When the soil is tilled year after year for annual grains, soil and prairie eco-systems are destroyed. Perennial grain growing restores them. Studies have shown similar yields as compared to annual [...]
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