All Paper Recycling, Inc. creates environmentally responsible products and building materials from one hundred percent recycled paper, cloth, and plant fiber.

A group of apple growers in southeast Minnesota formed the Apple Crisp Cooperative to work together to develop new products and markets.

Vernon, New Jersey . Ask Jonathan White to describe the cheese and bread he and his family make at Bobolink Dairy and he'll quickly say, "It's the joyful accumulation of everything we do." Based on an unconventional passion for keeping dairy cows outside on a natural diet of grass, this 200 acre farm in Vernon, New Jersey, exemplifies an artisanal food business for today's marketplace, dedicated to directly connecting with and helping educate their customers.

BOLT Enterprises is a student-run business that gives students the experience of running a real business and providing jobs. BOLT Enterprises produces a dynamite Bar-B-Que sauce and a real-life education for young entrepreneurs.

Home, Kansas · Organic farming is a way of life that dates back 150 years in Nancy Vogelsberg-Busch’s family. Her great-grandfather homesteaded on the north central farm where Nancy was born. When Nancy’s father inherited the farm from her grandfather in the 1950s, it was on the condition of a promise never to use chemicals on the land or livestock. Today, Nancy’s brother Joe farms the home place, still honoring that land ethic.

This cooperative has a plant that produces fuel grade ethanol and dried distillers drains with solubles from the processing of locally produced corn.

West Jordan, Utah · Situated in the Salt Lake Valley in West Jordan, Utah, about 10 miles from Salt Lake City to the north, Drake Family Farms milks profits from a herd of dairy goats, enduring the rapidly changing landscape of agriculture and land use. A Utah Century Farm owned by Jeanette and Ron Drake, Drake Family Farms specializes in goats milk products, including cheese, raw milk, yogurt and handmade goats milk soaps. The farm also continues breeding their award-winning Nubian, Saanen and Snubian goats -- a business started by their 13-year-old son, Daniel, in 1984 as a 4-H project -- and operates a licensed USDA Grade A commercial dairy on site to process their high quality products.

Lexington, Oklahoma · Sometimes personal adversity and limited funds foster an environment of innovation and creativity. For April Harrington, the sole proprietor-farmer of Earth Elements Farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, it's led to an agricultural operation that is practically 100 percent value-added. On 3/4-acre of her five acre farm, April organically grows the medicinal and culinary herbs she uses in her body care products as well as in her breads and homemade canned soups. Along with fifteen varieties of heirloom vegetables, she sells her food products, body care products, and herbs at a local farmers' market. She also retails her body care products by mail and through two area health food stores. Her sales have all resulted from word-of-mouth marketing.

If Elmwood Stock Farm were a song, and each family member improvised on a different instrument, then the weekends would sound like the chorus.

In 1996, Howard Hamilton, Arland Moger, and Bob Nelson, all grain farmers from Currie, Minnesota, formed The Environmental Dust Control (EDC) which uses a soy-based product to suppress wild dust and gravel. This soy-based product is known as DUSTLOCK.