Tag: June 2014
Save the Family Farm: How Small Farms Can Succeed
Booker T. Whatley, who died in 2005 at age 89 at his home off Court Street in Montgomery, kept a flourishing midtown garden until...
Second Career Farmers Sell Natural Crops Locally
A 1996 civil engineering graduate from the University of Alabama, Trent Boyd was working for a building and excavation contractor in Birmingham when it...
Flood Maps Re-engineered for Big Bucks
Dozens of new beachfront condos built in Orange Beach and Gulf Shores, including many condos built in place of developments destroyed by Hurricane Ivan,...
Durant Accomplishes Many Things Despite Tough Times
When Mike Durant’s Black Hawk helicopter was shot down during combat in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993, he was attacked by a street mob, sustaining...
The Shopping Center Group Selling to Big Box Retail
Two highly visible retail properties in Montgomery totaling $14.4 million changed hands recently with the sale of Promenade Montgomery and The Home Depot shadow...
Farm Technology Continues to Grow on Glenn Acres
Don and Brian Glenn started looking into the use of automated data collection on their Hillsboro farm in the mid-1990s to help improve their...
Maritime Security Industry Tackles Piracy on the Seas
Any new venture requires risk and gumption — but consider one that seeks to tackle piracy on the high seas. Now that’s taking “risky...
Milo’s Tea New Lineup Turns Over a New Leaf for Company
In the hot and muggy South, iced tea is equal parts hydration, tradition and religion. For many of the faithful, only Milo’s Tea will...
Lee and Russell Counties are Growing in Potential
The location of Lee and Russell counties in east-central Alabama along the Alabama-Georgia border has helped both counties develop their tourism and economic potential...
Space Debris: Cleaning the Celestial Junkyard Quickly
America has no ride into space at the moment other than with its estranged Russian space partners, but we can still address cleaning up...