1. Grow More, Sell More, Make More The 43,560 Challenge
February 7, 2015
OSU Institute of Technology
Okmulgee, OK
Presenters:
Clif Slade, Slade Farms, Surry, VA

2. My Story

3. Little Clif

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

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

8. 43,560 = The number of square feet there are in an acre
43,560 Project at VSU Randolph Farm
"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

9. Petersburg, VA and Okmulgee, OK

10. This could also be called the MIRACLE ACRE

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

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

13. Marketing is the key

15. Three Rules of a Successful Business
The customer

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

17. 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

21. Close Row Spacing

22. Organic Compost

23. Organic Compost

26. 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

38. Clif’s Invention

39. High Tunnel Greenhouses

40. Southeast Virginia Water Deficit Chart

41. Irrigation Central

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

43. “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
“Don’t go into it – grow into it” – Clif Slade

44. Camp Clifton

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

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

47. Questions?