Clifton Slade - A Diversified Production System

A Diversified Production System: Benefits Clifton Slade, Owner 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

Pole Butterbeans

Greens

Greens – Marketing Day

Spring Onions

Irish Potatoes

Transplanting Watermelons

Gleaning Cabbage

High Population Sweetcorn

Processing Hogs

Arnetta’s Chinese Food

Meat/Produce Processing

Close Row Spacing

Organic Compost

Spring Onions

Laying Plastic

Clif’s Invention

High Tunnel Greenhouses

Irrigation Central

Transplant Production

Compost

Future Sausage

Southeast Virginia Water Deficit Chart

Beehive

Farm Market & Roadside Stands Sycamore Springs Farm Market

Three Rules of a Successful Business
The customer
The customer
The customer

Private Label

Specialty Item

Sycamore Springs Farm 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

S ustainable
L iving
A griculture
D emonstration
E xperiment
S tation

Camp Clifton

Come to see us!
“ The farm gate hangs on welcome hinges”
- Pop Slade

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