Glade Road Growing
Jason Pall and Sally Walker
540-808-0672
2351 Glade Road, Blacksburg, VA 24060
gladeroadgrowing.com
Mailing Address: 1908 Shadow Lake Road, Apt. 6, Blacksburg VA
Email: farm@gladeroadgrowing.com
Glade Road Growing is a small farm located on Glade Road across from the Heritage Park in Blacksburg, Virginia. Jason and Sally specialize in annual vegetables but also have about seven colonies of honeybees and just planted a small apple orchard with 15 varieties of apples. Their farming methods are based on building and maintaining the health of the soil. They do their best to serve as caretakers of the land by using organic matter-based mulches and cover crops. Although their intensive cultivation area only occupies about 4 acres, they 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.
“We think that we have some great produce, and we have our soil to thank for it (plus a lot of sweat that went into mulching it with leaves and woodchips). We use organic-matter based mulches rather than plastics, practice crop rotation, and plant several perennial flower borders to serve as a habitat for insects that prey on crop pests. All of our fertilizers and pesticides are organically certified and are available from Seven Springs Farm in Floyd, Virginia.”
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Information sourced from BLACKSBURG FARMERS MARKET: AN ARCHIVE by Kathryn Clarke Albright