Urban Farming Popularity
The popularity of urban farming is increase because the rise in number or farmers markets and the growing demand for eco freindly products.
It is equal with the report from Robert Kluson that with food and fuel prices soaring, more people are looking to their own backyard for food. He is an agricultural scientist. He said that he like to call it the new face of agriculture. It is highly sustainable production on less land”
September 30th, 2008 at 9:49 am
What is helping to spur urban farming is a franchise-ready sub-acre farming system called 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, Ireland and the Netherlands, and you can see some of these entrepreneurial farmers in action at http://www.spinfarming.com