Session
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Strategies for Building Capacity from a Community Farm
Cam Terry, Garden Variety Harvests
Saturday · 3:45 pm–5:00 pm
We farm fresh vegetables on a small city parcel owned by a land trust on a busy street, with over a dozen residential homes on our fencelines. Striving to serve this proximate community has…
Cam Terry and Chloe Johnson run Garden Variety Harvests (GVH) at Lick Run Farm in Roanoke, VA: a 3 acre urban market garden business on leased land trust property. They cultivate over 40 varieties of vegetables, fruits and flowers for sale to local eaters via farmers markets, restaurants, and a freshly-opened on-farm store: Crop Shop.
In addition to produce sales, GVH hosts on-farm events including markets, garden classes, cultural festivals, field trips, internships and an annual farm camp for area youth.
Please stop by the Crop Shop at Lick Run (1626 10th Street NW) while you’re in town! Open 11-6 on conference Sunday!