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Potatoes Are Perfect Peri-Urban Crop
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK I just put in a couple of segments of potatoes this week. Norland and Yukon Gold. I’ll probably plant 10 segments total, or about 10,000 square feet. That should give me  over 600 lbs. of potatoes. My potato cropping strategy...
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Reality Check for New Backyard Farmers
Courtesy of Roxanne C., Philadelphia PA Still high from a full season of farming conferences, and primed by government funded training programs, new farmers are now heading back to the land to pursue their farm dreams. Most often they include a farmstead set amid rolling hills, a lone tractor silhouetted against...
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SPIN Bed Sizes Are Not Just Plug and Play
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK We often get asked, “Should I make all of my beds SPIN-size?” SPIN’s “standard size bed“ is a theoretical construct, as well as a practical one. Its dimensions are 2 feet wide by 25 feet long. This bed size is...
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A Multi-locational Farm is a Realistic Ideal
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Whenever I see farming conference programs at this time of year I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. The hot topics are always the same. Land access. Farm succession. Risk management. I just don’t relate because years ago...
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Why and How Wally Developed SPIN
Courtesy of Roxanne C., Philadelphia PA This is the story of Wally Satzewich. He did not come from a farm family. Thirty years ago he began growing in his backyard in Saskatoon, SK, a city of about 220,000. He began selling at the Saskatoon Farmers Market, and that sealed his...
