Clifton Slade - 43560 Project

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?