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Press release: New Web Site Service Launched for Entrepreneurial Farmers
SPIN-Farming™ Teams Up with Small Farm Central
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SPIN-Farming, (www.spinfarming.com) has teamed up with Small Farm Central (www.smallfarmcentral.com) to provide ready-to-go websites that connect farmers with customers quickly, easily and inexpensively.
“SPIN-Farming calls for cultivating customers as well as crops, and that calls for a professional-looking web site,” says Wally Satzewich, the developer of the SPIN-Farming system. “But most farmers would rather deal with buggy potato plants than buggy software. Small Farm Central frees farmers to be out working their plots instead of sitting behind a computer trying to program their web sites.”
The SPIN-branded web sites can include everything “soup to nuts”, from photo galleries to blogs to recipes to mailing lists, but farmers can start out simply and add features as they see the need. No technical experience is necessary to run their sites on Small Farm Central.
“SPIN-Farming is helping to eliminate the traditional hardships of farming and is redefining it as an entrepreneurially-driven profession,” says Roxanne Christensen, Co-author of the SPIN-Farming online learning series. “It is only natural to be working with Small Farm Central to eliminate the complexities of web site development and help farmers harness the power of technology for direct marketing. Plus, Small Farm Central is in a great position to know what is working for farmers online, and they generously offer free tips and advice at their site.”
“Whether they farm in the middle of an urban jungle, on the suburban fringe, or as part of a large acreage in the country, each SPIN farmer’s story is a powerful online marketing tool. We at Small Farm Central understand their stories, and help them tell it, engage with their customers, and sell more through professional, active websites that promote the farmer-eater connection,” says Simon Huntley, Lead Developer of Small Farm Central.
ABOUT SPIN-FARMING
S-mall P-lot IN-tensive (SPIN) Farming is a non-technical, easy-to-understand-and inexpensive-to-implement farming system that makes it possible to generate $50,000+ in gross sales from a half-acre by growing common vegetables. It is organic-based and can be practiced on a single plot or multi-sited on several residential backyards or front lawns in urban or peri-urban areas. It is available via an online learning series at www.spinfarming.com.
ABOUT SMALL FARM CENTRAL
Small
Farm Central provides inexpensive, professional web services to farmers across
the country. An online control panel that farmers can access at any time takes
the mystery out of farm websites and makes it a breeze to sell products,
publish a blog, post photos, and more. Information about the Small Farm Central
SPIN web service can be found at: http://smallfarmcentral.com
Contact:
SPIN-Farming
Roxanne Christensen
e-mail: rchristensen@infocommercegroup.com
phone: 610-505-9189

Hi, I'm Simon Huntley, the lead developer here at
re: SPIN & SFC
Eugene,
Glad the press release found you -- it is interesting to see these circuitous routes that information travels on the net.
Of course you are right, both SPIN and Small Farm Central attempts to make the process of creating economically sustainable farms a little bit easier.
Best of luck to you - I look forward to seeing your site live and holding you up as a beacon of success to rest of the farm direct marketing community.
--
Simon Huntley
Lead Developer, Small Farm Central
http://www.smallfarmcentral.com
SPIN & SFC
Good news to team with SPIN. The press release was posted to the GO NOFA Forum where Dominique read about it and forwarded it to me.
To do k's on small acreage in vegetables farmers need a good market, a popular CSA, and a web presence for the farm to sell things (in season & out/fresh & value added) with ecommerce, and also to represent itself invitingly to attract workers & interns, always in short supply on a small farm. Best of luck.
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