SMall Plot INtensive (SPIN) Farming Workshop
Thursday, Februrary 28 9:00am-5:00pm
Friday, February 29 9:00am-12:00pm
Mitchell Park Pavillion on the Lagoon
2200 W. Pierce St. Milwaukee, WI

SPIN stands for new hope for independent farmers and demonstrates a way to accelerate the shift to a more locally based food system.

Learn from the developer of SPIN Farming and veteran urban framer Wally Satzewich and his partner Gail Vandersteen, how to produce $50,000+ in gross sales from half an acre-right in your own backyard or neighborhood.

The developer of this revolutionary new sub-acre SPIN-Farming method will show you how farming can fit in to any lifestyle or life cycle, and how to achieve levels of productivity and financial success that many agriculture professionals claimed were impossible. Join other pioneering urban farmers from across the country. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how SPIN is turning backyard farming into a viable business proposition and fostering a growing corp of urban farmers who are bringing agriculture back home.
Join other pioneering urban farmers from across the country and learn how to:

• Create a working farm with minimal infrastructure to keep start-up costs low
• Segment your farm into different levels of production using the 1-2-3 approach to land usage to maximize yields
• Apply revenue-targeting formulas to produce a steady revenue stream
• Use highly regimented farming protocols to avoid burnout
• Develop direct marketing channels, which allow you to keep more of your income
• Balance production between high-value and low-value crops to produce a sophisticated product line that incorporates seasonal crop repertoires You will also get reality-based case studies that will describe, in detail, how to start and operate various scales of operation, from a 5,000 square feet part-time hobby farm that generates $10-20,000 in gross annual sales to a deluxe 1-acre full-time farm model that generates $50-65,000 in gross annual sales.
  
  
Join the vanguard of SPIN farmers who are pushing beyond the boundaries of established agriculture and taking it to places where conventional wisdom says fruits and vegetables do not belong.

Spin Farming Key Characteristics
*Sub-acre
*Low capital intensive
*Environmentally friendly
*Close to markets
*Entrepreneurially driven

Resident Farmer Rates
Local farmers, and urban garden activists are being offered reduced rates for all aspects of the conference. When registering there is a section for Resident Farmer rates.
Qualifications for resident farmer rate are
*Must have some stewardship of land
*Actively producing food for sale and indicate where
*How much in net/gross sales in 2007