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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:
CBC
SHAW TV
Dissecting Dinner
 
Online/Print:
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
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:

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

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

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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