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• 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 […]