Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK We always get asked if SPIN can work in (name your location here). We always reply that  SPIN is not place-based. No matter what zone, or country you are in, as long as you are approaching growing as a business, SPIN...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK Farmers spend so much time and effort on their crop plans that they sometimes fail to capitalize on the unexpected. For instance, I had a sub-segment of garden space slated for green garlic. Problem is I have some volunteer greens...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK In part 1 of this blog I explained that SPIN turns a garden into a cash generator by showing gardeners how to value their production and set a revenue target. Now I’ll explain how to turn that revenue target into...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK SPIN-Farming reduces the amount of land needed for commercial crop production to garden size plots. It is therefore sometimes confused with square foot gardening, but SPIN involves something new. It provides gardeners with a way to put an economic value...
Courtesy of Roxanne C., Philadelphia PA The advantage of using a system like SPIN-Farming is that it provides benchmarks to guide your business and measure your progress in highly specific terms. Let’s take a look at what comprises SPIN’s benchmarks, and how they all add up. SPIN’s units of production...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SPIN farmers are starting to plan for the 2015 season, so let me share a typical Q&A that might help you in starting to look ahead. Q: I have 54 2 ft x25 ft SPIN beds. Nest season I am hoping...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Round about now many are thinking about spring. If you don’t go to a winter market, or have winter sales of any type, then you will be looking ahead to what SPIN-Farming calls a ” spring debut ” week. For...
