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Presenters:
• Clif Slade, Slade Farms, Surry, VA
My Story
Little Clif
Pop Slade says “There’s enough ways for everybody to have a
way”
Little Clif’s Way
Commercial Vegetables
Chickens/Eggs
Hogs/Sausage
43,560 = The number of square feet
there are in an acre
"One acre can do it"
One square acre = 210 ft x 210 ft
43,560 Project at Slade’s Farm
This could also be called
the MIRACLE ACRE
This initiative is nothing new.
It is simply square foot
gardening on a commercial
scale
The goal is to gross $1.00/square
foot in Sales
…thus the $43,560
Marketing is the key
Three Rules of a Successful
Business
1 The customer
2 The customer
3 The customer
What the pH on my farm?
The optimum pH for growing most
vegetable crops is 6.5
Fertilization (My 5 gallon
bucket technology)
One bucket of pelletized poultry Manure per 500 sq. ft.
And 10 five gallon buckets of compost per 500 sq. ft.
Weekly applications of vermicompost tea
Close Row Spacing
Organic Compost
Organic Compost
Crops to consider
• Beets
• Bok Choy
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Cut Flowers
• Garlic
• Irish Potatoes (especially fingerlings)
• Lettuce (Romaine and Buttercrunch)
• Maybe Diakon Radish
• Onions
• Swiss Chard
• Turnips
Clif’s Invention
High Tunnel Greenhouses
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Inches of
Water
Available Water ET Precipitation
Southeast Virginia Water Deficit Chart
Irrigation Central
Clif’s Keys to Success Irrigation
Annual Soil Sampling
Marketing
Good Old-Fashioned Manners
“Don’t go into it – grow into it” – Clif Slade
“You just can't beat the person who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth
“Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.”
– Bo Jackson
Camp Clifton
Pop Slade says:
“There’s enough ways for everybody to have a
way”
Come to see
us!“The farm gate hangs on
welcome hinges”
- Pop Slade
Questions?
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