Spin Farming...

SPIN farming and gardening are systems for producing significant amounts of food in a limited space in an urban or suburban setting. This is a huge opportunity to foster a healthy continuum of food production, from backyard gardens to shared community plots, and even to commercial sub-acre farming.

Spin farming was developed by Satzewich, a farmer from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan who traded a 20-acre plot for his urban backyard and now farms a number of small urban plots. It relies on relay cropping, or succession cropping, the growing of different crops one after another in the same bed.

SPIN farming is intended to yield vegetable and fruit crops four or five times bigger than conventional techniques would. Cultivation is organic; most work is done by hand. SPIN farming is a part of the urban agriculture phenomenon that's sweeping the globe. Many cities are attempting to make their communities green by addressing a variety of concerns including food security, climate change, waning economies, water conservation, and a litany of other issues coming down the pike.