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Cider produced and bottled at Canosia Grove stands before a basket of Icelandic wool. Both await customers. The farm has begun marketing produce and value-added products through the Twin Ports REKO Ring. Demand for produce through the REKO Ring has led to plans for additional delivery dates to take goods to customers.
Value-added products await customers. REKO Rings provide security for farmers because customers order what they want and prepay before picking up goods at a central location during a meet up at a specific time.
Bob and Meg Blair stand in their orchard at Canosia Grove on the edge of Duluth, Minnesota. The couple has teamed with other producers to found the Twin Ports REKO Ring, an online organization linking producers to customers in the twin cites of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. Visit www.facebook.com/groups – search for “REKO Ring” – to see available rings. Visit www.facebook.com/groups – search for “Twin Ports REKO Ring” – and www.canosiagrove.com for more information regarding the Twin Ports REKO Ring and the Blair Farm.
Signs beckon customers at the Bayfield Farm Market in northern Wisconsin. Unlike farm markets, REKO Rings transport goods that customers order to a specific place at a given time. Meet ups between producers and customers last from 30 minutes to an hour.
Artisanal cheese waits to become part of a special quiche or salad. But how do customers find it? Locally made products in many parts of the United States are becoming available to customers online through REKO Rings.
A customer looks over beautiful vegetables offered at a farm market in Washburn, Wisconsin. Customers who don't have time to shop at farm markets may prefer to purchase goods from groups of producers who form REKO Rings. The idea of REKO Rings originated in 2013 with a farmer in Finland.
A customer buys freshly picked sweet corn at a popular stand in Ashland, Wisconsin. Corn stands may stay open until sold out, or until dark, whichever comes first. Corn sold through a REKO Ring is ordered and prepaid for online by customers and delivered to a meet up site by the farmer at a set time. Customers and farmers belong to a group, or ring, on the online platform Facebook.
If stored properly, carrot seeds are generally viable for up to three years.
Jason Maloney and Red
DULUTH, Minn. – Sometimes the new idea we’re looking for is staring us in the face.
Jason Maloney is an “elderly” farm boy from Marinette County, Wisconsin. He’s a retired educator, a retired soldier and a lifelong Wisconsin resident. He lives on the shore of Lake Superior with his wife, Cindy Dillenschneider, and Red, a sturdy loyal Australian Shepherd.
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Cider produced and bottled at Canosia Grove stands before a basket of Icelandic wool. Both await customers. The farm has begun marketing produce and value-added products through the Twin Ports REKO Ring. Demand for produce through the REKO Ring has led to plans for additional delivery dates to take goods to customers.
Bob and Meg Blair stand in their orchard at Canosia Grove on the edge of Duluth, Minnesota. The couple has teamed with other producers to found the Twin Ports REKO Ring, an online organization linking producers to customers in the twin cites of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. Visit www.facebook.com/groups – search for “REKO Ring” – to see available rings. Visit www.facebook.com/groups – search for “Twin Ports REKO Ring” – and www.canosiagrove.com for more information regarding the Twin Ports REKO Ring and the Blair Farm.
Signs beckon customers at the Bayfield Farm Market in northern Wisconsin. Unlike farm markets, REKO Rings transport goods that customers order to a specific place at a given time. Meet ups between producers and customers last from 30 minutes to an hour.
Artisanal cheese waits to become part of a special quiche or salad. But how do customers find it? Locally made products in many parts of the United States are becoming available to customers online through REKO Rings.
A customer looks over beautiful vegetables offered at a farm market in Washburn, Wisconsin. Customers who don't have time to shop at farm markets may prefer to purchase goods from groups of producers who form REKO Rings. The idea of REKO Rings originated in 2013 with a farmer in Finland.
A customer buys freshly picked sweet corn at a popular stand in Ashland, Wisconsin. Corn stands may stay open until sold out, or until dark, whichever comes first. Corn sold through a REKO Ring is ordered and prepaid for online by customers and delivered to a meet up site by the farmer at a set time. Customers and farmers belong to a group, or ring, on the online platform Facebook.
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