Start a Mini Farm Business in Your Backyard Or Small Acreage

January 6, 2009 · Posted in Business Strategy, Eco Conscious Consumer, Eco Friendly Products · Comments Off 

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In this new world of eco-consciousness, concern of global warming, home business and entrepreneurship, a gourmet treasury of backyard mini-farm opportunities are being born. They range from substantial extra streams of income to full-time income, and from rooftops, even apartments (!) to farms on small acreage. Out of the ashes of the farming disaster in the 1980s came a new form of organic small acreage or backyard farm, the “micro eco-farm.” The Center for the Micro Eco-Farming Movement, there are reports of angora rabbits being raised in apartments, organic herb gardens in backyards selling herbal crafts over the internet, miniature sheep, miniature dairy cows, organic flower farms on small acreage, heirloom vegetable farms on small acreage, garlic farms on small acreage, flower seed farms from backyards, and the list goes on. Read more

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Eco-Travel Business Model For Success in Tough Times – Agritourism Works in Good Times and Bad

January 6, 2009 · Posted in Eco Conscious Consumer, Eco Friendly Business, Green Business Ideas · Comments Off 

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Farm owners and local citizens involved in boosting the success of their own local and regional economy and local farms may want to take agritourism very seriously.

Agritourism is a branch of eco-tourism. Interestingly, when done right, it flourishes when funds for travel are up, as well as when funds for travel are very low (explained more below).

It’s obvious why local farms would want to attract world travelers to their farms. Why not allow the revenue that would have gone to a petro-guzzling chain resort instead be offered for a stay in an extra farmhouse bedroom? Why not take some of the otherwise cruise ship tourist trap-destined travel bucks by hosting a regionally branded harvest festival or garden tour for the travelers who harbor nearby and want to come onto land for authentic attractions? Read more

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Green Living Lifestyle – The Growing Business of Certified Organic Skin Care

January 6, 2009 · Posted in Eco Conscious Consumer, Eco Friendly Business, Eco Friendly Products · Comments Off 


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The green economy is developing whole new sections of business. One section that is just beginning to get some attention is the skin and cosmetics industry. There is lots of information available about skin care, however not enough about the importance of safety, health and how to find and purchase clean, green and healthy products. The certified organic skin care business is just beginning and will be growing along with the organic market which is expanding at an astounding rate every year.

‘Organic’ and ‘Natural’ have been used to describe skin care products and those words feel safe. As the natural skin care business grows there is also the need to become more educated so you can interpret terms that could be misleading. Read more

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Organic” Is A Marketing Label

December 18, 2008 · Posted in Business Strategy, Green Industry, Marketing · Comments Off 

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With everyone and their mother jumping onto the Green Movement bandwagon, words like Organic, Natural, Safe, are tossed around like water balloons at a county fair. If you’re the one catching the balloon, make sure it doesn’t unexpectedly go SPLAT all over you. The key to successfully navigating the New Green World and knowing whether you are purchasing safe, healthy and nutritious products is having a solid understanding of how to read the labels, and what the words Organic and Natural really mean.

Fertilizer Increases Yields

Widespread, frequent and excessive use of synthetic organophosphate fertilizers began in the 1930s, when such fertilizers became affordable and accessible to the masses. Food production quickly increased as a result of fertilizer use. Unfortunately, the effects of widespread organophosphates would not be realized for many years. Read more

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Hemp Houses – The Secret of Building Sustainable Homes

December 17, 2008 · Posted in Green Business 101, Green Business Basics, Green Industry · Comments Off 

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Once the areas major agricultural product, hemp is making a comeback in the Altiplano area of Granada, Spain. Until the late nineteen sixties industrial hemp growing formed the backbone of this wholly agricultural area of Spain. Towards the end of the Franco era, with the invention of nylon and the mechanisation of agriculture most of the population was forced off the land to find work on the coast and major cities.

With the advent of the eco-age the interest in industrial hemp is being revived as it is a major constituent of eco-bricks, a vital component of sustainable housing.

Hemp comes from the Anglo Saxon word ‘haemp’ and is the popular name for plants of the cannabis genus. Hemp usually refers to the strains of the plant cultivated exclusively for industrial use as opposed to cannabis which is associated with pot and similar drugs.

Hemp has a huge variety of uses but continues to be overshadowed by the cannabis connotation of illegal drugs, with which it is often confused. However hemp can legally be grown, under licence, in many countries, including the European Union countries and Canada. Read more

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