Grafton Village Cheese Renaissance

April 21, 2011 Grafton Village Cheese

Having started making and aging classic cheddar cheese over a century ago might make a creamery uncomfortable with change, but at Grafton Village Cheese, big changes are fermenting and their legion of devotees are sure to be excited.

Corey Harbour To Be Inducted Into Professional Floral Communicators Int.

April 21, 2011 Teters

Design Director of Creative Connection by Teters, Corey Harbours application to PFCI has been approved and he will be formally inducted at The Society of American Florists Annual Convention in September.

Farm Bureau Offers Baisch & Skinner Flower Distribution Center Tour

Join the Jasper County Farm Bureau Primetimers as we take an exclusive tour of the Baisch and Skinner Flower Distribution Center located in the heart of the Flower Market in St. Louis on Thursday, June 2. This 160,000 square foot facility includes enormous cut flower coolers, greenhouses, and all the trimmings that make up the flower industry.

Planting Seeds For Internet Growth

Guylaine Lacroix is targeting a client who actually resembles herself. This month, Lacroix, along with her husband, Mario, and son Dominic, launched fleursannuelles.com with the idea that there are many people who are comfortable shopping online, can’t find the time to head out to the garden centre, but want to spruce up their balcony or yard.

Recent Bison Boom Keeps Colorado Ranchers, Retailers Busy

David Hayes has been raising bison and selling bison products since 1976. But he can’t remember when the industry has been quite as crazy as it’s been in the past couple of years. For example, Hayes, who owns and operates the Spomer Ranch and Red Barn Bison Co. between Greeley and Milliken, Colo., said bison burger meat is demanding $10 a pound in some locations.