Pennsylvania Ag News Headlines SPIN-FARMING Guide on 4 Season Marketing Now Available Pennsylvania Ag Connection - 05/01/2009 A new guide that details three initiatives farmers can use to grow their businesses has been added to the SPIN-Farming, Philadelphia, online learning series on sub-acre farming. It can be purchased for $19.99 for immediate download at www.spinfarming.com "The SPIN 4 Season Marketing guide helps farmers get beyond the typical three season thinking to achieve higher levels of income," says co-author Wally Satzewich. Expansion initiatives detailed in the guide include selling throughout the winter at an indoor market, micro greens and shoot production and developing a craft product line. According to Roxanne Christensen, co-author of the SPIN-Farming online learning series, more and more people around the world are using SPIN's franchise-ready system to enter the farming profession. By using front lawns, backyards and neighborhood lots as their land bases, they are recasting vegetable farming as a small business in a city or suburb and helping to accelerate the shift back to a more locally-based food system. "We're trying to open up farming to a lot of different people that might not have seen it as possible for them," says Satzewich, who originally developed the SPIN-Farming system in his backyard garden in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Christensen explains that while SPIN's growing techniques are not breakthrough, what is novel is the way a SPIN farm business is run. Covered in the online learning series is everything you'd expect from a good franchise: a business plan, marketing advice, and a detailed day-to-day workflow. In standardizing the system and creating a reproducible process, SPIN really isn't any different from McDonalds, she says. The authors emphasize that SPIN-Farming is a production system, not a belief system. "The SPIN-Farming online learning series dispenses how-to, not ideology," Christensen says. SPIN (S-mall P-lot IN-tensive) Farming (www.spinfarming.com) is a non-dogmatic, non-technical, easy-to-understand-and inexpensive-to-implement farming system that makes it possible to generate significant income by growing common vegetables on sub-acre plots of land. It is organic-based and can be practiced on a single plot or multi-sited on several residential backyards in urban or peri-urban areas, or as part of a larger acreage in the country. Send this article to a friend Other Pennsylvania Headlines Pennsylvania Corn, Soybean On Par with 5-Year Average Student Stories: 'Bird Scientist' Does Unique Work in Hawaii Lakeside Community Sewer Extension has Minimal Impact Mysterious Insect to Emerge in Parts of Pennsylvania FDA Seeks Preliminary Injunction Again Fish Manufacturer Van Saun Receives Excellence in Academic Advising Award Monitor Barley and Wheat for Freeze Damage Copyright © 2013 - USAgNet.com. All Rights Reserved.