A Diversified Production System: Benefits

Clifton Slade, OwnerSlade 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 VegetablesChickens/EggsHogs/Sausage

Pole Butterbeans

Greens

Greens – Marketing Day

Spring Onions

Irish Potatoes

Transplanting Watermelons

Gleaning Cabbage

Gleaning Cabbage

High Population Sweetcorn

Processing Hogs

Processing Hogs

Processing Hogs

Processing Hogs

Processing Hogs

Arnetta’s Chinese Food

Meat/Produce Processing

Close Row Spacing

Organic Compost

Organic Compost

Spring Onions

Laying Plastic

Clif’s Invention

High Tunnel Greenhouses

Irrigation Central

Transplant Production

Compost

Future Sausage

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Inches of Water

Available Water ET Precipitation

Southeast Virginia Water Deficit Chart

Beehive

Farm Market & Roadside Stands

Farm Market & Roadside Stands

Sycamore Springs Farm MarketSycamore Springs Farm Market

Three Rules of a Successful BusinessThree Rules of a Successful Business

1 The customer

2 The customer

3 The customer

1 The customer

2 The customer

3 The customer

Private Label

Specialty Item

Sycamore SpringsFarm Market

“ Pumpkin Baby ”

Congratulations you are now the proud guardian of an authentic ”Pumpkin Baby”.

By making this purchase you agree to do a good deed for a complete stranger

within the next 60 days.

Don’t Go into it – Grow into it

Start small

Don’t over-extend yourself

Don’t gamble any more than you can afford to lose

Clif’s Keys to Success Irrigation Annual Soil Sampling Marketing Good Old-Fashioned Manners

Future Plans Certified Organic Peanuts Seeds Transplants

SustainableLivingAgricultureDemonstrationExperimentStation

Camp Clifton

Come to see us!

“The farm gate hangs on welcome hinges”

- Pop Slade