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Traveling Biodiesel Processor Boosts Self-Sufficiency of Organic Valley Farms
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Organic Valley is committed to utilizing responsible and renewable energy. They have worked within their business to implement solar and wind projects to provide clean energy to their headquarters. But they haven’t stopped at simply replacing electricity with a more responsible source of power; they are also working within the cooperative to further the use…
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Let the Sun Shine In: Farming Off-the-Grid
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Seven years ago, Sara and Raymond Luhrman began farming on rented land, serving ten members in a Community Supported Agriculture model (CSA). Two years later, they were up to forty members and had outgrown their land. They had started farming as a hobby, and with such a big operation, it had outgrown its place in…
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Harvesting Water is a Breeze
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When Jonathan Barter and his family arrived from Pennsylvania in 2006 to take over a fallowed, 210 acre farm in Yates County overlooking Kueka Lake, little did they know how lucky it was to live on a breezy knoll in wine country. “We had a vision of turning the goldenrod into lush green pastures with…
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Fighting the Weeds with Fire and French Fry Oil
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In 2006, Flying Rabbit Farm was under water. “We rode the canoe up over the railroad tracks,” Dave Dolan said. “Your head would’ve been under water.” Not to mention the rows of wheat and kale on either side of us. Dave and Mary Dolan have been farming this land for seven years, in a small-scale…
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