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Open House Replays
Share This:FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinReplay any of our Open Houses here, in the Open House Replay area which is under the BYR Programs tab in the top tool bar. Stay tuned for Member Meetups where you can pick the brains of standout SPIN farmers around the world, as well as Instant Learning sessions...
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The Farm Startup Story No One Tells
Share This:FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinCourtesy of Roxanne C., Philadelphia PA Here’s the biggest untold story in farming today: starting out urban and small, greatly increases the chances of success. Stats? It’s too early yet, but over our 10 years of guiding farm startups, the anecdotal evidence is mounting. SPIN-Farming members have always been...
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Mix It Up
Share This:FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinCourtesy of Roxanne C., Philadelphia PA It’s winter. Are you selling “Spring Mix”? What you call, and put into, your salad mix shouldn’t always be the same. SPIN farmers change their salad ingredients to reflect the changing seasons and keep customer interest stoked. How much variety and creativity they...
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To Get the Best Seed Price, Make a Call
Share This:FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinCourtesy of Wally S., Wally's Market Garden, Pleasantdale, SK In niche markets, SPIN farmers can adjust their pricing to cover their seed cost, but you should always try to get your seed costs down as low as possible. That means buying in bulk and shopping around. Take pea greens....
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# 1 Priority in Year # 1
Share This:FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinCourtesy of Wally S., Wally's Market Garden, Pleasantdale, SK If my email is any indication, 2019 might produce another bumper crop of new farmers. Those who are finding their way to me for advice come well-equipped with best practices and lengthy to-do lists. Very little of it has to...
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Back to the Future Doesn’t Work
Share This:FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinCourtesy of Roxanne C. , Philadelphia PA A new year and the same old hard luck farmers story. Once again it recounts the woeful tale of failing beginning farmers – you know the type. No farming background. Go to college. Run up debt. Quit unsatisfying city jobs. Escape to...
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Seeding Rate Helps Answer Whether A Crop Is Worth Growing
Share This:FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinCourtesy of Wally S., Wally's Urban Market Garden, Pleasantdale SK The planning questions keep coming, and last week the big one was, "How do I know if a crop is worth growing?" Getting an accurate read on your seed costs is a big part of the answer. In fact, knowing...
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Advice You Won’t Get at Farm Conferences
Share This:FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinCourtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Pleasantdale, SK This time of year I hear from a lot of aspiring farmers. They are filled with passion and enthusiasm and are eager to glomm on to role models. I'm a pretty easy target. I have been at the farmers...
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What’s Your Pricing Power? Just Ask.
Share This:FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinCourtesy of Wally S., Wally's Market Garden, Pleasantdale SK Pricing is one of the most important elements of marketing. We all know that. The pricing benchmark I set when I first developed the SPIN system was $3 per item or 2/$5. The idea was to use multiple unit pricing...
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Putting a Lawn Mower to Good Use
Share This:FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinCourtesy of Christian K, 3 Crows Farm, Cranbrook BC I use a battery powered lawn mower to even out my harvests of arugula, lettuce and mesclun mix, and spinach. I do my initial harvest with a Farmers Friend Quick Greens cutter, but find that my 2nd, 3rd and maybe...
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2019 Trends and Who’s Setting Them
Share This:FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedinGet ready for 2019 with our Alphabet List of Trends culled from all the online meetups we had with our Garden Heroes this year. Thanks to all of the forward thinking backyard farmers listed below who presented their business plans, how they implemented them and the revenue they targeted...
