clifton slade - 43560 project
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Presenters:
• Clif Slade, Slade Farms, Surry, VA
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My Story
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Little Clif
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Pop Slade says “There’s enough ways for everybody to have a
way”
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Little Clif’s Way
Commercial Vegetables
Chickens/Eggs
Hogs/Sausage
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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
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This could also be called
the MIRACLE ACRE
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This initiative is nothing new.
It is simply square foot
gardening on a commercial
scale
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The goal is to gross $1.00/square
foot in Sales
…thus the $43,560
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Marketing is the key
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Three Rules of a Successful
Business
1 The customer
2 The customer
3 The customer
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What the pH on my farm?
The optimum pH for growing most
vegetable crops is 6.5
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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
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Close Row Spacing
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Organic Compost
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Organic Compost
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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
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Clif’s Invention
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High Tunnel Greenhouses
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Inches of
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Available Water ET Precipitation
Southeast Virginia Water Deficit Chart
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Irrigation Central
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Clif’s Keys to Success Irrigation
Annual Soil Sampling
Marketing
Good Old-Fashioned Manners
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“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
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Camp Clifton
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Pop Slade says:
“There’s enough ways for everybody to have a
way”
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Come to see
us!“The farm gate hangs on
welcome hinges”
- Pop Slade
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Questions?