Growing Alternative Crops in Tobacco Greenhouses

Project Overview

FS05-186
Project Type: Farmer/Rancher
Funds awarded in 2005: $4,085.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/2009
Region: Southern
State: Virginia
Principal Investigator:
Charlie Broadwater
Clinch Mountain Farmers, Inc

Commodities

  • Vegetables: greens (leafy)
  • Additional Plants: tobacco, herbs

Practices

  • Crop Production: fertigation, multiple cropping
  • Education and Training: demonstration, extension, on-farm/ranch research
  • Farm Business Management: new enterprise development, budgets/cost and returns, cooperatives, market study
  • Production Systems: transitioning to organic
  • Sustainable Communities: new business opportunities, sustainability measures

    Summary:

    This project could not finish the objectives and performance targets. The project is now closed.

    Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or SARE.