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Media Kit

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.

 
Broadcast:
ABC’s Good Morning America
Sounds Like Canada
Dissecting Dinner
 
Online/Print:
Wall Street Journal
Oregonian
Willamette Week
Wilkes Beacon
Michael Fields Agriculture Institute
Urban Agriculture magazine
Urban Agriculturalist
The Herald (Winnipeg)
Neighbourhood Heroes
Worldchanging
Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy (62KB PDF)
Eco-Journal (1.8MB PDF)
Touch the Soil (2.9MB PDF)
Celsias.com
Small Farm Canada
New Farm/Rodale
Vegetable Grower News (1MB PDF)
Reprinted with permission of Vegetable Growers News
Farm and Ranch Living
PASSAGES (37KB PDF)
Reprinted with permission of Pennsylvania Assoc. Of Sustainable Agriculture
NSAS Newsletter (247KB PDF)
Reprinted with permission of Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society
The Tyee
 
Books:

Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket – Brian Halweil, Nov. 2005, pages 101-102. Worldwatch Press

Harvest for Hope -  Jane Goodall, Gary McAvoy and Gail Hudson, Nov. 2005 page 186, Warner Books

 
Research papers:

Annie Meyers, Undergraduate, UCBerkeley Vitalizing the Vacant - May 2008

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

Dr. Mary Beckie,  Assistant Professor, Division of Government Studies, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta
Small Plot Intensive Farming: A New Spin on Urban Agriculture – research in progress; scheduled publication – Summer 2008

Michael Ramsay, M.Arch Candidate, University of Waterloo (School of Architecture) Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Urban Agriculture: Redefining urban communities through local growing – April 2007

 


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