Courtesy of Roxanne C., co-founder, SPIN-Farming Novice SPIN farmers can create their crop repertoire based on the offerings of mainstream seed companies, which offer SPIN’s classic high-value relay crops – carrots, lettuces, spinach, scallion, radish. These are the great tasting, top-selling crops that a farmer can’t go wrong with. But...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK I’ve been developing a new product line called Quick Greens. Greens figure prominently in SPIN-Farming because of their quick days to harvest. So they are great for relay cropping  because different crops can be planted either before or after them. Thirty...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Late spring frequently brings this kind of SOS from beginning farmers: “I can’t make significant sales from my stand at the farmer’s market. Help!” If your stand looks like this, you are suffering from farm stand confusion. Below are some...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK It’s not that hard to grow food. It’s quite different to grow it at commercial grade. But there are different levels of commercial grade. Here’s how I have always thought about it. My competition is not other farmer’s at market. It’s...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Now that we’ve expanded our product line to bedding plant, my wife Gail came up with a new design for our market stand. She got some grow lights put into our stand, so we can leave them there between markets. You...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK I upgraded my refrigerated storage capacity, so now I can offer great looking/in good condition storage carrots for sale at early spring markets. They were harvested late Sept./early Oct. and were not washed. They were stored in the commercial cooler, with...
Courtesy of Lee McB., Foodscapes Inc. Huntsville, AL To set restaurant prices, you must know what your costs of production are and your expected return on investment. You can sell at any price, a huge key to sustainability is profit. Restaurants can be goldmines. Restaurants can be a very difficult...
Courtesy of Trevor VH, Victoria BC I do web design professionally and have worked with all the major free web platforms. I have regretted it every time I haven’t used WordPress. Once it’s set up, it’s extremely easy to use. It’s similar to editing a word document. Note that there...
