Courtesy of Roxanne C., Philadelphia PA We have said before that SPIN is performance-based, which means that success is measurable. The traditional and often used benchmark in farming is yield. Certainly the amount of crops you produce is important. But to succeed as a business, what is most important is...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Aspiring agripreneurs can always count on receiving this advice: never plant anything without first identifying your market. “Grow what you sell, don’t sell what you grow” is pretty much conventional wisdom now, and that’s progress. But since SPIN farmers are...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK The emails and mailers are starting to come in outlining all the challenges and rewards of organic/eco/sustainable/regenerative farming, so that means workshop season will soon be upon us. A main theme of SPIN-Farming workshops is to understand and use your...
Courtesy of Linda B., Abundant Life Farm, Walker Valley NY A SPIN-Farming workshop I did in Virginia brought up an important point – and that is new markets and ways to market. In the section of Virginia in which I gave the workshop they had a heck of a waiting...
