The 2008 StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition

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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 76-100 Results Alphabetically
Name Category Rank
Signe Brewster Photography Most Slacker-Friendly 5
Slumber Parties by Renee O Wackiest 5
Smoky Mountain Woodworks Boomers Back in Business 6
Snoloha Most Slacker-Friendly 1
SteamShowers 4Less.com Best Financial Performers 5
Sterling Advertising Highest Vote-Getters 4
Surefire Marketing Best Financial Performers 2
Sweet Onion Creations Greenest 1
Tbosna.com Grungiest 9
The Dippy Chick Yummiest 6
The Enoch Olinga College of Intercultural Studies Worldliest 2
The Estate Lady Boomers Back in Business 3
The Organizing Wiz Most Innovative 8
The Welcome Committee Best Financial Performers 10
TriCalyx Highest Vote-Getters 9
Valaset Services Greenest 5
Whiner and Diner Highest Vote-Getters 2
Wizard Industries Best Financial Performers 4
Write2Market Best Financial Performers 9
Write2Market Greenest 2
Wunderdog Sports Best Financial Performers 6
www.brazilian-bikinis.net Worldliest 3
www.kewltubes.com Worldliest 4
Your Mobile Gym Most Innovative 6
Your Mobile Gym Most Slacker-Friendly 3

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