June 2009
1 post
Specialty food producers finding room to grow...
David Chikos of Bridgeport, Neb., attended a Lincoln foods conference in hopes of learning how to more widely distribute his Ladle Lovers brand of dry bean soup mix. The full-time farmer and owner of High Plains Soup Co. said he got more than that at the National Small Food Manufacturers’ Conference. Chikos left with “a reinvigorated fire in my belly to get the product to...
February 2009
3 posts
GROW Nebraska expands with yearround pilot store...
HOLBROOK, NEB. (January 26, 2009)—What began as a holiday store has expanded to a year-round GROW Nebraska store at the Conestoga Mall in Grand Island. GROW Nebraska opened its first year-round store in the Kearney Hilltop Mall in August 2007. The additional Grand Island location is a response to shoppers enthusiastic support of Nebraska entrepreneurs and businesses.
The store also is attracting...
The Sandhills…..What? Where? When? How?
The Sandhills…..What? Where? When? How? These are four of the questions that may be asked most often about the sandhills, and I will try to answer them as briefly as possible.
What do the sandhills look like? There are regions of gently rolling hills and areas of giant dunes, which have long since grassed over. In parts of the sandhills, lakes are abundant and on these lakes the waterfowl are...
