http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/27/sustainable-cities-series-forum-3-local-food-and-agriculture/ Respect Your Food. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:07:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/27/sustainable-cities-series-forum-3-local-food-and-agriculture/#comment-64658 JaneiczPeaileruy Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:27:13 +0000 http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/27/sustainable-cities-series-forum-3-local-food-and-agriculture/#comment-64658 How its going? How its going?

]]> http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/27/sustainable-cities-series-forum-3-local-food-and-agriculture/#comment-4325 Roxanne Christensen Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:59:59 +0000 http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/27/sustainable-cities-series-forum-3-local-food-and-agriculture/#comment-4325 Many citizens around the world are recognizing that the segregation of food production outside of cities and towns no longer makes sense in an increasingly urbanized world. Many are using a new sub-acre, organic-based farming system called SPIN-Farming to “go pro” by creating commercial farm businesses in their backyards and front lawns. You can see some of these backyard and front lawn farmers in action in the gallery area of the SPIN-Farming web site (www.spinfarming.com). Developed by Canadian farmer Wally Satzewich, SPIN-Farming is an organic-based, non-technical, easy-to-learn, inexpensive-to-implement farming system that makes it possible to earn significant income from land under an acre in size (perfect in scale for allotments). Minimal infrastructure, reliance on hand labor to accomplish most farming tasks, utilization of existing water sources to meet irrigation needs, and situating close to markets all keep investment and overhead costs low. SPIN therefore removes the 2 big barriers to entry for new farmers – land and money, and is as close to a franchise-ready farming system as you can get while still respecting the creative and place-based nature of farming. It is helping to not only re-imagine the current food production system, but it also provides a tool for re-building it by enabling a growing corps of first generation entrepreneurial farmers around the world to, literally, take matters into their own hands by establishing farm businesses wherever they live. Many citizens around the world are recognizing that the segregation of food production outside of cities and towns no longer makes sense in an increasingly urbanized world. Many are using a new sub-acre, organic-based farming system called SPIN-Farming to “go pro” by creating commercial farm businesses in their backyards and front lawns. You can see some of these backyard and front lawn farmers in action in the gallery area of the SPIN-Farming web site (www.spinfarming.com).
Developed by Canadian farmer Wally Satzewich, SPIN-Farming is an organic-based, non-technical, easy-to-learn, inexpensive-to-implement farming system that makes it possible to earn significant income from land under an acre in size (perfect in scale for allotments). Minimal infrastructure, reliance on hand labor to accomplish most farming tasks, utilization of existing water sources to meet irrigation needs, and situating close to markets all keep investment and overhead costs low. SPIN therefore removes the 2 big barriers to entry for new farmers – land and money, and is as close to a franchise-ready farming system as you can get while still respecting the creative and place-based nature of farming. It is helping to not only re-imagine the current food production system, but it also provides a tool for re-building it by enabling a growing corps of first generation entrepreneurial farmers around the world to, literally, take matters into their own hands by establishing farm businesses wherever they live.

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