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T C , ry bu on st la G . an iv ll u S a d n re B Like many of us, Brenda Sullivan grew up on farm stories, rather than a farm. She did not have to go too far back to find her farming heritage, though. Her father grew up on a farm, and he was the first generation to leave it. Her grandparents were the last to farm on her mother’s side of the family. But all previous generations dating back to the 1500's were farmers on both sides. They were among the first families to go west in covered wagons looking for better land. But Brenda found her farmland right in her own backyard. It was Brenda’s daughter, Katie, who led her back to growing food. Katie had to be on the Ketogenic diet to control seizures. The children's hospital strongly recommended Brenda grow her own vegetables because food manufacturers could not be depended on to be honest about what they added to their products. Katie is no longer on that diet, but Brenda is grateful that it – and SPIN-Farming - helped launch her farming career. After food gardening for 16 years in South Glastonbury CT, Brenda needed to supplement the family income due to the economic down turn. Because she cared for Katie, she needed a business that kept her close to home. So, using SPIN-Farming, she transformed her backyard into a 1,300 square foot farm, and she now sells her greens and specialty vegetables to restaurants and at two full time farmers' markets.
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Ready to Serve You! If you'd like to learn how to enjoy life down on the farm right in your own backyard – and start a whole new career by learning as you grow, Brenda Sullivan can show you how, with SPIN-Farming. Call or email her at 860-657-4361 or
[email protected]
To see how others are bringing farming back home, visit www.spinfarming.com
Return to Your Roots - Or Create New Ones With SPIN-Farming
Expanding Nearby
Brenda has recently scaled up, leasing another 1/4 acre from a neighbor where she will be planting winter crops. She is also leasing land from the Great Meadows Conservation Trust which has several small pieces of land that conventional farmers consider junk land. However, to Brenda, this is blessed fertile land that can be farmed! That’s what happens when you put on SPIN glasses – you start seeing farmland everywhere. If that’s what you’re seeing, and you’d like to become a home-based farming entrepreneur, Brenda's footsteps are good ones to be following in, and she is happy to lead the way. Send her an email at Thompson Street Farm to find out how you can use SPIN-Farming to get your own income producing farm in and off the ground. quickly and inexpensively, right in your own backyard Learn how the SPIN-Farming system, which is now being practiced by a growing corps of farmers across the U.S. and Canada, can be used to create a high-income producing farm or improve your current operation. SPIN is the first organic-based production system for land bases under an acre in size, and it can be implemented by aspiring and practicing backyard, front lawn and neighborhood lot farmers everywhere. All you need is to equip yourself with the right gear and a radically new understanding of what it means to be a farmer.
What is SPIN-Farming?
Who is SPIN-Farming?
SPIN stands for S-mall P-lot IN-tensive, and it is a production system that makes it possible to earn significant income from land bases under an acre in size by growing common vegetables. SPIN provides everything you’d expect from a good franchise: a business concept, marketing advice, financial benchmarks and a detailed day-to-day workflow. In standardizing the system and creating a reproducible process it really isn’t any different from McDonalds. By offering a non-technical, easy-to-understand and inexpensive-to-implement farming system, it allows many more people to farm commercially, wherever they live, as long as there are nearby markets to support them.
There is no one profile of a SPIN farmer. Some have been educated in other professions, or have had other careers. Some have home or community gardening experience, while others have never had dirt under their fingernails. Some come from traditional farm families, but most do not. Some are young and just starting out, while others are older and on their third or fourth careers. What unites them all is an ability to view and practice farming in a new way. Whether you are new to farming or want to farm in a new way, SPIN-Farming will put you on the path to success!
Brenda is a model citizen-farmer. She is self-taught and entrepreneurial. She knows how to use the resources at hand, while managing the demands of family life. She’s the perfect SPIN trainer for others like her who are turning to farming to re-skill, lower their grocery bills and plug the gaps that have been showing up in more and more household budgets. - Roxanne Christensen, Co-author, SPIN-Farming
Grow Food, Make Money! Brenda is ready to help people throughout Connecticut re-learn how to grow real food and make real dollars from a small plot of land.
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Call or email her at 860-657-4361 or
[email protected]
To see how others are bringing farming back home, visit www.spinfarming.com
