The 2008 StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition

Celebrating America's most outstanding home-based businesses and the people behind them.

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Last Year's 2007 Winners

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Category:Grungiest

If grease, grime, dirt, oil, tar, goop, soot or any combination thereof is a reality in your daily home-business life, this one's for you.

Rank: 5

Pond Hill Farm

Entrepreneur: Sharon Spencer Location: Harbor Springs, Michigan
Pond Hill Farm

Description:

This is a family-owned farm that loves visitors. But wear your boots. Kids can feed the cows, pigs, sheep, goats, roosters, and goose. The squash rocket is always a hit - a giant slingshot that's used to sling rejected squash out into the fields. That said, it was the pig feeding that made this business a slam dunk for our Grungiest category. And add to that the Pond Hill Farm market, where you can buy homegrown organic produce, fertilized with … you guessed it!

 

2007 Home-Based 100 Finalists

Showing 51-75 Results Alphabetically
Name Category Rank
Medical Solutions International Best Financial Performers 1
Murder Mystery Maniacs Wackiest 3
Murphy Outdoors Boomers Back in Business 1
Murphy Outdoors Most Slacker-Friendly 10
Nashville Lappy Hour Wackiest 1
No Throw Most Innovative 4
Northwest Redworms Grungiest 1
Ocean Summit Travel Best Financial Performers 3
Ocean Summit Travel Worldliest 10
OfficeFinder Boomers Back in Business 5
On Thyme Gourmet Yummiest 10
OnTray Most Innovative 5
Out of Stock Records Most Slacker-Friendly 8
Paris Real Estate Finders Worldliest 7
PetTastics Grungiest 2
Pond Hill Farm Grungiest 5
Preppymommy Most Innovative 7
R. H. Grover Tree Service Greenest 10
Reapalife Wackiest 10
Reapalife Worldliest 6
Red Scream Films Boomers Back in Business 2
Reese's Chicken Pot Pies Yummiest 3
Rixstix Highest Vote-Getters 10
RM Battery Doctors Greenest 9
See My Story Books Boomers Back in Business 9