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Virtual Farmers’ Market
Business Week: Dean Sparks is a 49-year-old farmer near Binghamton, N.Y., who for decades has relied on wholesale distributors to buy his organic eggs, milk, and cheese and sell it to stores and...
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Move Over Farmville: Here’s a Real Farm on Your iPhone
NY Times: The world doesn’t necessarily need the gazillion-and-one games that seem available on smartphones. But it could use more apps and services that address the needs of business people with...
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Where Did The Seeds Go?
According to the National Watermelon Promotion Board, as of 2010, only sixteen percent of grocery stores still sell watermelons with seeds. That’s a forty-two percent decline from 2003. What’s more is...
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Zoo Sells Elephant Dung as Fertilizer
The Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic is now selling elephant dung to their visitors as an unusual souvenir that can also be used to fertilize garden plants: “I believe that garden owners will...
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Niche Biz: Seaweed Fertilizer
The seaweed king of Prince Edward Island hasn’t yet made a buck from the seaweed he’s been collecting to sell as fertilizer, but that’s not stopping him: He doesn’t advertise and he doesn’t have a...
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Small Idea, Big Biz
Student ingenuity at finding jobs has created some interesting enterprises tapping into the Hamilton market. The Hamilton Spectator reports that the 15 successful local candidates of the 2010 Ontario...
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Haunted Houses Saving Family Farms
Did you know that haunted houses and pumpkin patch are saving the family farm? The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting article up today about this trend: Glenn Boyette used to be afraid he’d...
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Cool Biz Idea: Postcarden
Pour water on a typical greeting card and you’ve got a soggy mess. Do the same to a Postcarden, and you’ve got the beginnings of a miniature garden. According to DailyGrommet.com, Postcarden creator...
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Etrogs: Growing $150 Fruit
If you think farmers only grow things like apples, and oranges and peaches, you have no idea. Tablet Magazine (A New Read on Jewish Life) has up an interesting article about a farmer in California...
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Farmers Not Cashing in On Pumpkin Shortage
Looks like their might be an opportunity for an entrepreneur willing to buck tradition and transport pumpkins from California to other parts of the country where pumpkins are less plentiful. The LA...
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Can You Sell Anything?
How much would you pay for a box of tea-bag-like pouches filled with dried cow manure? According to Inc.com, lots of people are forking over $21.95 for a packet of nine such bags, made by Authentic...
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Airdrop Harvests Moisture Directly From Air
Edward Linacre, a student at Melbourne, Australia’s Swinburne University. has won this year’s James Dyson Award, with his “Airdrop Irrigation” system. The system harvest water from the air and...
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Will Agritourism Save Family Farms?
NY Times: For all the talk about sustainable agriculture, most small farms are not self-sustaining in a very basic sense: they can’t make ends meet financially without relying on income from jobs off...
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Is Your Honey Funny?
You might call them the Honey Police — beekeepers and honey producers ready to comb through North Carolina to nab unscrupulous sellers of sweet-but-bogus “funny honey,” reports The Associated Press....
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Biz Idea: Chicken Diapers?
Ruth Haldeman moved to rural Hot Springs, Ark., in 2002 and promptly took in a couple of orphan chicks. She soon discovered chickens poop–a lot. According to Entrepreneur.com, in the interest of...
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Grower Finds Tasty Niche
Jimmy Berke checks on trays of bright red tomatoes drying in a specially equipped 90-degree solar room that includes dehumidifiers and fans, reports The Palm Beach Post. He’s pleased to see they’re...
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Next Little Thing: Fish Food
Andrew Logan has what every manufacturer craves: an endless source of free raw materials that his suppliers can’t wait to dump and a market starving for his product, reports Fortune Small Business....
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Day-Old Chicks Shipped More Efficiently
I received the following as a press release, but I thought that the idea of chicks being sent through the mail made this story interesting enough to post. Endicia helps companies save money by...
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A Hotel for Chickens
This has to be a joke: It’s a hotel – but with a major difference. Instead of booking in guests in human form, Cornwall’s newest hotel only takes chickens. The aptly-named Chicken Hotel recently...
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Learning Lessons In Gardening
It is relatively safe to say that many people do not have a natural talent for gardening. However, Sue Goetz does. Like many entrepreneurs before her, Sue took advantage of her talent and found a way...
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