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• Meet April’s Garden Hero – Ryan Doan: From community gardener to $100k farm business

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  Ryan Doan launched Urban Greens in Cincinnati OH in 2011. He farmed multiple plots and established the business via farmer’s markets and a CSA. Typical SPIN success story. This year he’s adding a new chapter: […]

   

• Meet March’s Garden Hero – Lisa Patton: Building a Retirement Farm in 10 Months

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  Lisa and Steve Patton couldn’t wait to start farming in their retirement, so they didn’t. In 2016 they bought a suburban house with an acre yard in Garden City MO, and last year launched their […]

   

• Meet January’s Garden Hero – Chris Kimber: Stay-at Home Farming Dad

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  Chris Kimber’s 3 Crows Farm ticks a lot of the boxes we’ve heard about before: urban, pedal-powered, multi-locational. He’s used them to build a $60k business on 15,000 sq. ft, and his goal this year […]

   

• Meet November’s Garden Hero – Rex Landings: Creating a New Type of Family Farm

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  Rex got the Backyard Riches program for Christmas, and started posting in the member’s forum in 2015 when he had just a few chickens and some spin-dried lettuce in a washing machine. He didn’t know […]

   

• Meet October’s Garden Hero – Tara Callaghan: A Super Talented Farmer in Her Second Year

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  Tara’s in a position any new backyard farmer would envy. She’s created a picture perfect farm, is hitting SPIN-Farming’s sales benchmarks, and in the space of 2 years, has proven she can handle the basics […]

   

• Meet September’s Garden Hero – Lourdes Casañares: Flower Farm Startup

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  Farm to Vase. Slow Flowers. Floral Foraging. Handcrafted Heirlooms. The 50 Mile Bouquet. Sound sort of familiar? All the groundbreaking trends that powered the local food market into the mainstream are now doing the same for local […]

   

• Meet August’s Garden Hero – Mike Meier

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  Mike Meier is selling a lot more than veggies at Ground Floor Farm.  He’s created a business that is a working farm, event space, tourist destination and education center.  His commitment to improving his community […]

   

• Meet July’s Garden Hero – Ray Derksen: Farming Through His Golden Years

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  Find out how SPIN-Farming works as a retirement lifestyle and business with Ray Derksen, owner/operator of Market Garden 434. In spite of challenges like limited markets and a 5 month growing season, Ray broke even […]

   

• Meet June’s Garden Hero – Rod Olson: Diversifying with Two Business Models

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  Rod is a case study of how and why SPIN-Farming has taken root. He had no problem finding cropland in the city. All it took was one radio interview. Then he found others wanting to become […]

   

• Meet April’s Garden Hero – Cale Sprister

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  How do you start a backyard farm business in your spare time? Juggling four kids and a full-time job, Cale started SPIN-Farming last year with predictably impressive results. Now he is doubling his growing space, […]