ATWOOD, Kan. — An entrepreneurship fair held at her local high school encouraged Miranda Simminger to start thinking like a businesswoman. She sketched out plans for a local touring company, and then built an enterprise around raising rabbits that continues today. She markets a variety of rabbit meats as well as rabbit hair items like purses and keychains and rabbit manure for fertilizer through the High Plains Food Co-op, mostly to customers on Colorado’s Front Range.
“I learned a lot, and it was a lot of fun,” said Simminger, who lives on the family’s farm near Ludell, Kan., helping to raise hogs, cattle and chickens. She hopes her family can continue to find ways to expand the farm’s revenue so that she and her other siblings can remain involved in food and fiber production.
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