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Your Backyard Eden Is Worth More Than You Realize Working with nature rather than against her has always been the rule of thumb for backyard farmers.

Here’s a Crop That Grows Itself – Onions

Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Market Garden, Pleasantdale SK

Want a crop that grows and sells itself? Onions come close. I call them a “fire and forget it” crop. Because it does not require much watering or weeding, it’s perfect for a large plot, say the size of a driveway, 1,000 sq. ft.

Since I’m a SPIN farmer, I usually plant about a couple of segments of onions (a segment is 1,000…

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Meet March’s Garden Hero – Lisa Patton: Building a Retirement Farm in 10 Months Lisa and Steve Patton couldn’t wait to start farming in their retirement, so they didn't. In 2016 they bought a suburban house with an acre yard in Garden City MO, and last year launched their business with a CSA, and set up their table at several farmers markets.

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Meet January’s Garden Hero – Chris Kimber: Stay-at Home Farming Dad Chris Kimber's 3 Crows Farm ticks a lot of the boxes we've heard about before: urban, pedal-powered, multi-locational.

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Meet November’s Garden Hero – Rex Landings: Creating a New Type of Family Farm Rex got the Backyard Riches program for Christmas, and started posting in the member's forum in 2015 when he had just a few chickens and some spin-dried lettuce in a washing machine.

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Meet October’s Garden Hero – Tara Callaghan Tara's in a position any new backyard farmer would envy. She's created a picture perfect farm, is hitting SPIN-Farming's sales benchmarks, and in the space of 2 years, has proven she can handle the basics with aplomb.

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Meet September’s Garden Hero – Lourdes Casañares Farm to Vase. Slow Flowers. Floral Foraging. Handcrafted Heirlooms. The 50 Mile Bouquet. Sound sort of familiar?

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Meet August’s Garden Hero – Mike Meier Mike Meier is selling a lot more than veggies at Ground Floor Farm. He’s created a business that is a working farm, event space, tourist destination and education center.

Meet July's Garden Hero - Ray Derksen

Meet July’s Garden Hero – Ray Derksen

Find out how SPIN-Farming works as a retirement lifestyle and business with Ray Derksen, owner/operator of Market Garden 434. In spite of challenges like limited markets and a 5 month growing season, Ray broke even his first year. This year he is targeting $1k/week for total revenue of $20k on 60,000 sq.ft. He re-lives his first year market gardening mistakes, like don’t think you can just show…

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Meet June's Garden Hero - Rod Olson

Meet June’s Garden Hero – Rod Olson

Rod is a case study of how and why SPIN-Farming has taken root. He had no problem finding cropland in the city. All it took was one radio interview. Then he found others wanting to become SPIN farmers too. He helped train them up, and together they are now answering the question how many SPIN farmers can one city support? And how can they work together smarter, rather than alone and harder? They…

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Meet April’s Garden Hero – Cale Sprister How do you start a backyard farm business in your spare time? Juggling four kids and a full-time job, Cale started SPIN-Farming last year with predictably impressive results.

Meet March's Garden Hero - Mark Voss

Meet March’s Garden Hero – Mark Voss

Mark found his calling to farm in Africa, where he labored as a Peace Corps volunteer with subsistence farmers in the Togo bush. How did he end up as a SPIN farmer in Madison WI? It’s a fascinating journey that includes a pilgrimage to meet Masanobu Fukuoka, and the study of biodynamics with Ruth and Dick Zinniker. It was sheer necessity that led him to SPIN- Farming, which he places right up…

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Meet January's Garden Hero - Max Valyear

Meet January’s Garden Hero – Max Valyear

Why aren’t we eating good food? The answer to that question brought Max Valyear to the brink in 2013: there was no good reason. So he set out to produce it himself. He bought a bike and the SPIN-Farming guides and tore up some lawns. Three years later he has a business, and his town is starting to see food a whole lot differently. As owner/operator of Green Wheel Farms, Max is pedaling healthy…

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Meet a Modern Day Pioneering Farm Woman: Brianna van de Wijngaard

Farms are started by idealists and run by realists, and Brianna van de Wijngaard is the perfect mix of both. After paying her dues interning on large organic farms, she started her backyard-based business using SPIN-Farming’s multi-locational model in one of the most beautiful landscapes she had ever seen. Turns out the people of Williams Lake (population: about 10,800) are as beautiful as the…

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Meet Brenda Sullivan Who Built a Home-based Business by Reconnecting with Her Farming Past

Like many of us, Brenda Sullivan grew up on farm stories, rather than a farm. She did not have to go too far back to find her farming heritage, though. Her father grew up on a farm, and he was the first generation to leave it. Her grandparents were the last to farm on her mother’s side of the family. But all previous generations dating back to the 1500’s were farmers on both sides. They were…

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Meet Caroline Barrington Who Turned Her Passions for Health and Gardening into a Family-oriented Business

Caroline Barrington is owner/operator of Clean Spade Farm, which uses garden size plots to generate farm-size income. Caroline Barrington’s town is not the most progressive, but her enthusiasm for health was contagious. In Swift Current SK she became known as the go-to-person for local food, and when she started turning her garden into a business using the SPIN-Farming growing plan and business…

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Meet December's Garden Hero - Rob Miller

Meet December’s Garden Hero – Rob Miller

For Rob Miller, it wasn’t about money. It was about adventure. Artistry. Accomplishment. Then he realized people actually valued all that. Now, with the help of Backyard Riches programs, it’s a business. Rob became a backyard farmer way ahead of schedule, and his success has been equal parts adventuresome eaters, progressive neighbors, expert foraging skills, non-stop marketing. It’s all…

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