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:- WorldWatch Nourishing The Planet
- TEDX Kelowna
- The Western Producer
- CBC News Calgary
- Hartford Courant
- Ethical Foods
- Seedstock
- Co-housing News
- Farmer Veteran Coalition
- Groovy Green
- Medill Reports, Chicago
- Mercury News
- Transition Culture
- 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
- Oregonian
- Willamette Week
- Wilkes University
- Touch the Soul Syndicate (353KB PDF)
- Urban Agriculture magazine
- Urban Agriculturalist
- The Herald (Winnipeg)
- Worldchanging
- Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy (62KB 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, Worldwatch Press
- Harvest for Hope - Jane Goodall, Gary McAvoy and Gail Hudson, Nov. 2005, Warner Books
- Breaking Through Concrete – David Hanson and Edwin Marty, Feb 2012, University of California Press
- Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution – Jennifer Cockrell-King, Feb 2012, Prometheus Books
- Folks This Ain't Normal – Joel Salatin, Nov 2011, Center Street Hatchette Book Group
- The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities – Peter Ladner. Nov 2011, New Society Publishers
- Your Farm in the City – Lisa Taylor, Fall 2011; Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers
- Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers – Frederic Theriault and Daniel Brisebois , Jan 2010, Canadian Organic Growers
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


