Contacts:
Roxanne Christensen, 610-505-9819
rchristensen@infocommercegroup.com
New Sub-Acre Farming Method Attracts Growing Number of Green Entrepreneurs
MILWAUKEE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Backyard and front lawn farmers from around the U.S. and Canada will convene at the second annual SPIN-Farming workshop at the Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee, WI, February 28-29, 2008. Capacity for this year’s SPIN Cities: Farming Where We Live workshop has been expanded to 120, and a sellout crowd is expected.
“SPIN is a franchise-ready system that makes the farming profession accessible to many more people because it removes the two big barriers to entry – land and capital,” says Roxanne Christensen, Co-author of the SPIN-Farming online learning series.
The workshop will be taught by veteran urban farmer Wally Satzewich who developed the SPIN-Farming system after he realized the income from his large acreage in the country could be exceeded by growing intensively on small plots in the city.
“A sub-acre farmer can make the same living as a large-scale farmer with less stress and overhead, and with more certainty of success from year to year,” Satzewich says. He adds that had he known about the revenue potential of sub-acre farming when he began his career, he would have fulfilled his farming aspirations in the city rather than purchasing 20 acres in the country.
Workshop participants will create their own sub-acre farm plan utilizing components of the SPIN system.
Sponsors of the workshop, which precedes the Urban Agriculture conference on March 1, 2008, include Michael Fields Agriculture Institute of East Troy, WI. and the Mitchell Park Domes, Milwaukee, WI.
SPIN is being practiced by a growing corps of sub-acre farmers who are accelerating the shift to locally-based food systems. As SPIN becomes practiced more and more widely, Christensen says, it will create new farmland within metropolitan areas, which, in turn, will produce environmental, economic and social benefits. “It offers a compelling value proposition.”
For workshop outlines and registration contact Roxanne Christensen at rchristensen@infocommercegroup.com, 610-505-9189, or visit www.spinfarming.com
ABOUT SPIN-FARMING
S-mall P-lot IN-tensive (SPIN) is an organic-based, non-technical, easy-to-understand and inexpensive-to-implement farming system that makes it possible to generate $50,000+ in gross sales from a half-acre by growing common vegetables. It can be practiced on a single plot or multi-sited on several residential backyards in urban or peri-urban areas. Information about SPIN-Farming and its learning guides is available at www.spinfarming.com
