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 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 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 Roxanne C., Philadelphia PA SPIN-Farming does not look at all like agribusiness's vast fields of monoculture crops. But both SPIN and big ag show how farming, in a systematic way, makes itself more productive, efficient, and profitable. While agribusiness relies on capital and mechanization, SPIN's asset is people,...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally's Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK Unlike selling wholesale, there are no established unit sizes in SPIN-Farming, and no standards to go by. So how much to put in a unit is an ever popular topic in our online support group. To take the mystery out of...
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 SPIN farmers are always looking ahead, so now that spring is coming, I'm thinking of winter squash plantings. I'll use transplants, start them in mid - May, and put them into the ground in early June. Our short season here...
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...