Marketing & Other Resources for Sustainable Farms

A local food and product source for your area. Pick-A-Pepper allows customers to search local farms and food artisans in their area for fresh, local food. Farmers, gardeners and food artisans have a free place to sell their products within their community.

What Can I Do With My Small Farm? Selecting an Enterprise for Small Acreages - Often, when people buy a small farm they simply want someone to tell them what they can "do" with it. As strange as it might seem, this isn't an easy questions to answer.

Albeke Farm Hours: M-F 9-7, Sat 9-5, Sun 12-5. I-205 exit 10, HWY 213 Beaverton Rd, left to Wilson. Call for avail. U-pick or picked: Straw, rasp, blue, boysen, marionberries; Gravenstein, Macintosh, Melrose apples, peaches, picklers, tomatoes, beans, pumpkins, Concord grapes. Fresh picked: sweet corn, cheeries, cots, pears, country crafts and more.

Without a doubt, running a U-pick operation is one of the fastest-growing segments of the small-farm industry. Each season more and more growers are adjusting their production arrangements in order to offer U-pick as an aspect of their marketing effort.

This easy-to-use web site lists all of the pick-your-own fruit and vegetable farms the U.S., Canada, Britain and other countries Find a farm or orchard near you to pick apples, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, figs, peaches and tomatoes at better quality and lower prices than a store or farm stand!

Find locally grown produce anywhere in the country! Use our map to locate farmers markets, family farms, CSAs, farm stands, and u-pick produce in your neighborhood.

Welcome to the Portland Area CSA Coalition (PACSAC). PACSAC connects people with local farms and fresh, seasonal food through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). PACSAC is a resource for consumers and farmers, educating the public about CSA and providing events and networking opportunities that support CSA farmers.

Farm Commons provides the proactive legal services sustainable farmers need to become the stable, resilient foundation of a community-based food system. Farm Commons provides business legal services to farmers, creates useful legal education resources, and educates attorneys on issues relating to community-based farmers around the country.

The Content Marketing Institute provides this starter kit to help you convince executives of the value content marketing can bring to your organization.

The term “native advertising” has gotten a lot of play around the digital media industry recently, as publishers, platforms and other ad sellers look for ways to differentiate their offerings and combat the continued commoditization of banner ads. There’s no case that the Internet has shown the power of native advertising. After all, search ads are a truly native form of advertising — and Google can tell you how well that’s worked out. But when it comes to content publishers, things get murkier. Is native advertising really that new, or is it just sponsored content or “advertorial” repackaged for the digital age? Digiday asked industry execs how they define the term.

Brands of all shapes and sizes can learn from Coca-Cola’s application of the 70/20/10 rule to guide content development and investment.

PR Smith's SOSTAC marketing planning model stands for Situation analysis, Objectives, Strategy, Tactics, Action, Control. SOSTAC ® was voted the third most popular model in the CIM poll on marketing models

President Clinton should apologize. He just did to an entire generation what he did to Sister Souljah a generation ago. Bill Clinton’s policies may have worked for a short time in the 1990s…

Publishing valuable content consistently to attract prospects and customers is no longer a fad. Content marketing is here to stay, and the businesses that reap the benefits are the ones that consistently turn up to the page and hit publish on their blogs, their newsletters and their social media content.

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Why is it that taking headache meds is required shortly after Googling “best blog platforms”? With so many to choose from how do you choose? Read more...

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Social media encourages dialogue between companies and their customers but can lead to negative comments on social forums. How do you deal with these?

SEO best practices for external links. What is an external link? What are the best ways to build external links for SEO?

One of the most popular blog post formats is the list-based approach. Here are some tips on how to build a good list blog post right from the start.

These ideas for blog posts will help you learn how to rewrite old articles. Bloggers – both new and experienced – sometimes find it difficult to find new ideas to write about….unless they learn how to reslant, tweak, and edit their old blog posts! After all, why waste the writing you’ve already done and the ideas you’ve already created?