Clif Slade

1. Grow More, Sell More, Make Even More!
Clif Slade- Slade Farms

2. My Story

3. Little Clif

6. Pop Slade says “There’s
enough ways for
everybody to have a way.”

8. Little Clif’s Way
• Commercial Vegetables
• Chickens/Eggs
• Hogs/Sausage

9. 43,560 Project at Slade’s Farms
"One acre can do it.”
43,560 = The number of square feet
there are in an acre
One square acre = 210 ft x 210 ft

10. 43,560 sq. ft. /500 sq. ft. = 87.12 beds

11. Cost of Production
$10,000/87.12=$114.78

12. 5ft wide X 100 ft. long =
500 sq. ft.
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13. 42” wide
5 ft.

14. 42” wide

15. This could also be called the MIRACLE ACRE.

16. This initiative is nothing new.
It is simply square foot gardening on a commercial scale.

17. The goal is to gross $1.00/square foot in sales
…thus the $43,560

18. Marketing is the key!

19. Farmer’s
Markets
Sell to PYO
operations
Roadside
Stand
Selling to
CSA’s
Value
Added
Clif’s 5 tiers of Marketing:

21. Three Rules of a Successful Business
THE
CUSTOMER
THE
CUSTOMER
THE
CUSTOMER

22. What is the pH on my farm?
The optimum pH for growing most vegetable
crops is 6.5.

23. Clif recommends:
• applying lime
• growing cover crops for one year
What if my pH is 5.8 or less?

25. Fertilization (My five gallon bucket technology)
One bucket of pelletized poultry manure per 500 sq. ft.
10 five gallon buckets of compost per 500 sq. ft.
Weekly applications of vermicompost tea

27. Equipment

28. Equipment

29. Equipment

33. Close Row Spacing

34. Organic Compost

35. Organic Compost

38. Crops to Consider:
• Beets
• Bok Choy
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Cut Flowers
• Garlic
• Irish Potatoes (especially fingerlings)
• Lettuce (Romaine & Buttercrunch)
• Maybe Diakon Radish
• Onions
• Swiss Chard
• Turnips

50. Clif’s Invention

51. High Tunnel Greenhouses

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Available Water ET Precipitation

53. Irrigation Central

54. Good Old-
Fashioned
Manners
MarketingAnnual
Soil
Sampling
Irrigation
Clif’s Keys to Success

55. “Don’t go into it – grow into it”
– Clif Slade
“Set your goals high, and
don't stop til’ you get there.”
– Bo Jackson
“You just can't beat the person
who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth

56. Camp Clifton

57. Pop Slade says “There’s
enough ways for
everybody to have a way.”

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

59. Questions?