This has to be a joke: It’s a hotel — but with a major difference. Instead of booking in guests in human form, Cornwall’s newest hotel only takes chickens. The aptly-named Chicken Hotel recently opened for business at Boskenwyn, Helston. The venture was set up to give chicken owners a place to check-in their birds […]
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I received the following as a press release, but I thought that the idea of chicks being sent through the mail made this story interesting enough to post. Endicia helps companies save money by maximizing productivity. And with the recent USPS price increase, it’s a great time for businesses of all sizes to start saving
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The seaweed king of Prince Edward Island hasn’t yet made a buck from the seaweed he’s been collecting to sell as fertilizer, but that’s not stopping him: He doesn’t advertise and he doesn’t have a website, but Dorgan is getting lots of calls these days from continental Europe, Ireland, Texas and other parts of the
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According to the National Watermelon Promotion Board, as of 2010, only sixteen percent of grocery stores still sell watermelons with seeds. That’s a forty-two percent decline from 2003. What’s more is their alarming prediction. The board states that within a generation, children won’t even know watermelons are meant to come studded with shiny black seeds,
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A herd of dairy farmers were having dinner one evening when someone wondered aloud if there wasn’t something that they could do with all of the bovine excrement. In jest, someone else asked, “Can’t you guys make a flowerpot or something with the stuff?” Those were fateful words for brothers Ben and Matthew Freund, second-generation
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When you think of unmanned aerial vehicles, you probably think of the military uses, right? You might not be considering the true economic impact of the technology. The New Yorker has more: According to a recent report from the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (A.U.V.S.I.), a trade group, over ninety per cent of the
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Business Week: Dean Sparks is a 49-year-old farmer near Binghamton, N.Y., who for decades has relied on wholesale distributors to buy his organic eggs, milk, and cheese and sell it to stores and restaurants around the East Coast. In early April, he started experimenting with online food wholesaler FarmersWeb to sell to chefs and shop
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Hydroponics is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. One Florida in entrepreneur has found a business opportunity in it: No matter what the season, Heather Ulrichsen has fresh herbs, lettuce and peppers. What started as a winter hobby turned into a business opportunity. She and her partner, Richard
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Looks like their might be an opportunity for an entrepreneur willing to buck tradition and transport pumpkins from California to other parts of the country where pumpkins are less plentiful. The LA Times has the scoop: There’s a pumpkin shortage plaguing parts of the country this year, because of drought and storms in the Midwest
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Pour water on a typical greeting card and you’ve got a soggy mess. Do the same to a Postcarden, and you’ve got the beginnings of a miniature garden. According to DailyGrommet.com, Postcarden creator Aimee Furnival had an idea to re-think the greeting card and in a way that is stylish, playful, completely unexpected and yes,
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