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Sustainability Week: Tour Glade Road Growing - A Sustainable Farm
Venue: Glade Road Growing, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Sunday, September 18, 2011
Time: 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
Visit and tour Glade Row Growing, a sustainable farm in Blacksburg. The tour should last about one hour with a question and answer session at the end.

We have a small farm located on Glade Road across from the Heritage Park in Blacksburg. We specialize in annual vegetables and sell at the Blacksburg Farmer’s Market, but we also have about seven colonies of honeybees and have just planted a small apple orchard with 15 varieties of apples.

Our farming methods are based on building and maintaining the health of the soil. We do our best to serve as caretakers of the land by using organic matter-based mulches and cover crops.

Although our intensive cultivation area only occupies about 4 acres, we also manage the remaining 44 acres on the property, part in rotational pasture for a local beef cattle farmer and part in a native-species forest and riparian area for a tributary of Tom’s Creek.

Glade Road Growing is located at 2351 Glade Road, across the road from the “upper” Heritage Park parking lot. Please park near their red barn or in the Park parking lot across the road.

Visit our website for more details on the farm’s operation at: http://gladeroadgrowing.com/ or call: 540-808-0672.

For more information, visit: http://www.recycle.vt.edu/sustain/