Comments on: BBC’s One Planet – Urban farming 17th July 2008 http://blogspodsandfeedsforrbp.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/bbcs-one-planet-urban-farming-17th-july-2008/ Welcome to the wonderful world of sustainability blogs, podcasts and feeds Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:01:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: BBC Podcast Explores “Farming in the City” in Uganda’s capital Kampala — City Farmer News http://blogspodsandfeedsforrbp.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/bbcs-one-planet-urban-farming-17th-july-2008/#comment-9 BBC Podcast Explores “Farming in the City” in Uganda’s capital Kampala — City Farmer News Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:24:21 +0000 http://blogspodsandfeedsforrbp.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-9 [...] Listen to BBC Podcast here: [...] [...] Listen to BBC Podcast here: [...]

]]> By: Rick Wilson http://blogspodsandfeedsforrbp.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/bbcs-one-planet-urban-farming-17th-july-2008/#comment-7 Rick Wilson Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:05:41 +0000 http://blogspodsandfeedsforrbp.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-7 Hello Roxanne Thanks for the link to the spinfarming website, this looks like a really positive way of creating more sustainable food secure communities Thanks Rick Hello Roxanne
Thanks for the link to the spinfarming website, this looks like a really positive way of creating more sustainable food secure communities
Thanks Rick

]]> By: Roxanne Christensen http://blogspodsandfeedsforrbp.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/bbcs-one-planet-urban-farming-17th-july-2008/#comment-6 Roxanne Christensen Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:56:11 +0000 http://blogspodsandfeedsforrbp.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-6 What has held back urban farming has been the lack of an economically viable system that can be deployed rapidly and on a broad scal.e That is the concept behind SPIN-Farming. Developed by Canadian farmer Wally Satzewich, SPIN is a franchise-ready vegetable farming system that makes it possible to earn $50,000+ from a half acre. SPIN farmers utilize relay cropping to increase yield and achieve good economic returns by growing only the most profitable food crops tailored to local markets. SPIN's growing techniques are not, in themselves, breakthrough. What is novel is the way a SPIN farm business is run. SPIN provides 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 it really isn't any different from McDonalds. By offering a non-technical, easy-to-understand and inexpensive-to-implement farming system, SPIN allows many more people to farm, wherever they live, as long as there are nearby markets to support them, and it removes the two big barriers to entry – sizeable acreage and significant start-up capital. By utilizing backyards and front lawns and neighborhood lots as their land base, SPIN farmers are recasting farming as a small business in cities and towns and helping to make local food production a viable business proposition once again. Most importantly, this is happening without significant policy changes or government supports. You can see some of these entrepreneurial sub-acre farmers in action at www.spinfarming.com What has held back urban farming has been the lack of an economically viable system that can be deployed rapidly and on a broad scal.e That is the concept behind SPIN-Farming. Developed by Canadian farmer Wally Satzewich, SPIN is a franchise-ready vegetable farming system that makes it possible to earn $50,000+ from a half acre. SPIN farmers utilize relay cropping to increase yield and achieve good economic returns by growing only the most profitable food crops tailored to local markets. SPIN’s growing techniques are not, in themselves, breakthrough. What is novel is the way a SPIN farm business is run. SPIN provides 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 it really isn’t any different from McDonalds.

By offering a non-technical, easy-to-understand and inexpensive-to-implement farming system, SPIN allows many more people to farm, wherever they live, as long as there are nearby markets to support them, and it removes the two big barriers to entry – sizeable acreage and significant start-up capital. By utilizing backyards and front lawns and neighborhood lots as their land base, SPIN farmers are recasting farming as a small business in cities and towns and helping to make local food production a viable business proposition once again. Most importantly, this is happening without significant policy changes or government supports. You can see some of these entrepreneurial sub-acre farmers in action at http://www.spinfarming.com

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