Rumbleway Farm: Delivering a Taste of the Farm
Conowingo, MD. From farm to feast, Rumbleway Farm delivers a menu of diversified products and business strategies, with owners Robin and Mark Way continuing the legacy of their historic farmstead outside Conowingo in northeastern Maryland by reinventing itself for today's marketplace.

Phenix Biocomposites
By utilizing annually renewable, sustainable and recycled resources, Phenix has created a line of products that deliver better value to the marketplace and also represent environmentally sound alternative products in place of wood.

Oakhaven Permaculture Center
Hesperus, Colorado · By Rachel Turiel Hinds

In another time and place Tom Riesing crunched numbers on Wall Street. Christie Berven taught elementary school. Since meeting in 1998, the two have become born-again zealots for their cause: soil, earthworms, beet greens. Tom and Christie are the creators of Oakhaven Permaculture Center, tucked into the Gambel oaks and lichen-covered rocks at 8,700 feet at the mouth of La Plata Canyon near Durango, Colorado. It consists of a 2,200-square-foot greenhouse, outdoor gardens, ponds, chickens, and the ever-watchful gazes of its creators.

Nature-Inspired Landscape Solutions
Applied Ecological Services (AES) staff has the foresight, experience, and flexible work ethic to restore unhealthy places and to influence legislation for landscapes all over the U.S. From renewed stream corridors to restoring prairie landscapes, AES works on over 700 such innovative projects annually.

Forming a Multi-Community Alliance
Forming a Multi-Community Alliance The three small towns of Dayton, Elmo and Big Arm form a u-shaped area around Flathead Lake in stunningly beautiful northwestern Montana. The community of Elmo was selected to participate in Horizons -- a community leadership program sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation. When their neighbors in the towns of Big Arm and Dayton heard about the process, they asked to join in.