Comments on: Look Mom, There’s a Farmer in Our Back Yard http://permaculture.org.au/2008/09/01/look-mom-theres-a-farmer-in-our-back-yard/ Changing the world one site at a time Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:54:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Cymon Fjell http://permaculture.org.au/2008/09/01/look-mom-theres-a-farmer-in-our-back-yard/comment-page-1/#comment-26513 Cymon Fjell Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:54:21 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=598#comment-26513 Hello, Very inspirational. City living will prove to be more sustainable than finding a bend in the river to build a straw bale house and grow veggies. Sadly the rural lifestyle with its common ally the car is less environmentally sustainable than a city apartment dwellers. In fact my ultra urban lifestyle is much healthier and sustainable than the one I had as a founding director of the Permaculture Institute in the late '70's. Fond regards, Cymon Fjell Hello,

Very inspirational. City living will prove to be more sustainable than finding a bend in the river to build a straw bale house and grow veggies.

Sadly the rural lifestyle with its common ally the car is less environmentally sustainable than a city apartment dwellers.

In fact my ultra urban lifestyle is much healthier and sustainable than the one I had as a founding director of the Permaculture Institute in the late ’70’s.

Fond regards,
Cymon Fjell

]]> By: Roxanne Christensen http://permaculture.org.au/2008/09/01/look-mom-theres-a-farmer-in-our-back-yard/comment-page-1/#comment-26277 Roxanne Christensen Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:51:43 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=598#comment-26277 There is another angle to this story and that is backyard commercial SPIN farmers. SPIN is a franchise-ready sub-acre farming system that 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 www.spinfarming.com There is another angle to this story and that is backyard commercial SPIN farmers. SPIN is a franchise-ready sub-acre farming system that 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

]]> By: Martin http://permaculture.org.au/2008/09/01/look-mom-theres-a-farmer-in-our-back-yard/comment-page-1/#comment-26176 Martin Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:36:02 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=598#comment-26176 Wow, what a marvellous idea...and I've been looking for a way to get out of my desk-bound job...oh boy! Thanks for posting this. Wow, what a marvellous idea…and I’ve been looking for a way to get out of my desk-bound job…oh boy! Thanks for posting this.

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