Is wildlife tourism viable economic development for rural areas? My instinct tells me yes, but I keep craving some real data to work with. My little area of Oklahoma has just opened a huge project after five years of serious preparatory work (read the Enid News and Eagle story or visit the Great Plains Trail…
Contribute your stories, images to book showcasing role of young people in rural revitalization We read about “Youth Renewing the Countryside” at two influential rural blogs, The Rural Populist and Center for Rural Affairs. Consider contributing your story or photo to Youth Renewing the Countryside, a book in progress that will capture the best stories…
From the Center for Rural Affairs: Congress Must Act Now for Rural America! There are practical strategies that work, strategies to revitalize 21st century rural communities. But local initiatives must be matched by federal policies that support rural revitalization, rather than hinder it. The 2007 farm bill provides one vehicle to chart a new course.…Our…
If your small biz includes your handmade creations, check into Etsy, an online market for handmade items. You can sell anything that is handmade or, a bit more loosely put, hand-assembled or hand-altered. … If human hands put some love into the object, odds are you can sell it on Etsy. It is a marketplace…
Here’s a Tom Peters definition: Business* (*at its best): An emotional, vital, innovative, joyful, creative, entrepreneurial endeavor that elicits maximum concerted human potential in the wholehearted service of others.** (**Employees, Customers, Suppliers, Communities, Owners, Temporary Partners) small biz rural entrepreneurship Tom Peters business
by John Crabtree, johnc@cfra.org That is what my father often said to me. As a teenager I was always looking for a quicker way to get my farm chores done so I could spend time with friends. My shortcuts most often yielded inferior results and took longer. But I would keep at it, thinking that…
Chris Brogan has found a university that fits him: I went to an open house for Lesley University, based in Cambridge Massachusetts, and I was mighty pleased with their program offering for adult learners. Listen to this: first, they help you with “life experience” credits, so that you can write your way out of something…
One of my favorites when it comes to rural tourism information is the man from BoomTown. This is the latest e-news! Last week the U.S. Census Bureau came out with a report on migration trends, Domestic Net Migration in the United States: 2000 to 2004. They broke down migration patterns by region, state and MSA…
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