12 Aug
Want to do more to reduce your food-related carbon footprint but don’t know where to start? Think a ‘Greener’ menu is outside your budget? Think again; big and small, backyard gardens are making a comeback and providing a financially and environmentally sustainable alternative to store-bought goods.
But before deciding yay or nay, take a look at this family of four surviving off of their backyard farm and $30,000/yr…in L.A.
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Some home-based farmers generate significant income from their yards by practicing SPIN-Farming. SPIN makes it possible to earn $50,000+ from a half-acre. 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, it allows many more people to farm commercially, wherever they live, as long as there are nearby markets to support them. By using backyards and front lawns and neighborhood lots as their land base, SPIN farmers are recasting farming as a small business in a city or town and helping to accelerate the shift back to a more locally-based food system. SPIN is now starting to be practiced throughout the U.S.,Canada, UK, Australia and Ireland, and you can see some of these entrepreneurial farmers in action at http://www.spinfarming.com
August 12th, 2008 at 1:52 pm