"I have a small working homestead that helps support my husband and myself, but I want to grow into a micro-farm business"
SPIN-Farming has lots of angles...
SPIN is resonating in many circles – academic, activist, agricultural, design, environmental, intellectual, lifestyle, gastronomical and governmental. Here are a few angles the media have picked up on recently.
If you are a journalist, researcher, writer, producer or publisher looking to put your own spin on SPIN, contact us and we'll give you fresh food for thought. |
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Broadcast: |
| CBC | |
| SHAW TV | |
| Dissecting Dinner | |
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Online/Print: |
| Seedstock | |
| Co-housing News | |
| Daily Townsman | Eastern Iowa Gazette |
| Eastern Iowa Gazette | Eastern Iowa Gazette |
| Farmer Veteran Coalition | Groovy Green |
| Medill Reports, Chicago | Mercury News |
| Portland Tribune | Transition Culture |
| Youngstown Chon.com | United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia |
| Winnipeg Free Press | |
| Lancaster Farming | |
| Forbes.com | |
| Penn State newsletter | |
| Pocono Record | |
| Toronto Star | |
| Emagazine | |
| Farming magazine | |
| Keystone Edge | |
| NOLA.com | |
| Natural Home | |
| Environmental Building News | |
| Keystone Edge | |
| Philadelphia Inquirer | |
| Wall Street Journal | |
| Hope Dance | |
| Colorado Springs Independent | |
| Tahlequah Daily Press | |
| Co-operative Grocer | |
| The Globe and Mail | |
| Newark Star Ledger | |
| ATTRA News (560KB PDF) | |
| Organic Matters Magazine | |
| Wall Street Journal | |
| Independent Street | |
| Wilkes Beacon | |
| Oregonian | |
| Willamette Week | |
| Wilkes University | |
| Royal Roads University | |
| Touch the Soul Syndicate (353KB PDF) | |
| Urban Agriculture magazine | |
| Urban Agriculturalist | |
| The Herald (Winnipeg) | |
| Worldchanging | |
| Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy (62KB PDF) | |
| Eco-Journal (1.8MB PDF) | |
| Touch the Soil (2.9MB PDF) | |
| Celsias.com | |
| New Farm/Rodale | |
| Vegetable Grower News (1MB PDF) Reprinted with permission of Vegetable Growers News |
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| Farm and Ranch Living | |
| PASSAGES (37KB PDF) Reprinted with permission of Pennsylvania Assoc. Of Sustainable Agriculture |
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| NSAS Newsletter (247KB PDF) Reprinted with permission of Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society |
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| The Tyee | |
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Books: |
Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket – Brian Halweil, Nov. 2005, Worldwatch Press |
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Harvest for Hope - Jane Goodall, Gary McAvoy and Gail Hudson, Nov. 2005, Warner Books |
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Breaking Through Concrete – David Hanson and Edwin Marty, Feb 2012, University of California Press |
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Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution – Jennifer Cockrell-King, Feb 2012, Prometheus Books |
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Folks This Ain't Normal – Joel Salatin, Nov 2011, Center Street Hatchette Book Group |
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The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities – Peter Ladner. Nov 2011, New Society Publishers |
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Your Farm in the City – Lisa Taylor, Fall 2011; Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers |
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Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers – Frederic Theriault and Daniel Brisebois , Jan 2010, Canadian Organic Growers |
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Research papers: |
Stuart Brown, Masters Program, Charles Sturt University, Urban Agriculture: Is There Now An Opportunity for a Viable, Small Scale Agriculture to Emerge in Brisbane, Australia - June 2008 |
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Annie Meyers, Undergraduate, UCBerkeley Vitalizing the Vacant - May 2008 |
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Institute for Innovations in Local Farming and Urban Partners – Farming in Philadelphia: Feasibility Analysis and Next Steps Executive Summary (5 pages) or Complete Study (41 pages) – December 2007 |
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Michael Ramsay, M.Arch Candidate, University of Waterloo (School of Architecture) Cambridge, Ontario, Canada |
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