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Spring! Spring! Spring!

Here's Hayden bringing some greens in for the weekend. We are happy to be pulling through our winter greens dearth and have picked an abundance of spinach, kale, bok choy, arugula, lettuce mix, spring mix, cilantro, dill, pea shoots, microgreens, salad turnips, salad radishes, duck eggs and more for our...

On-farm market
here at 2351 Glade
Saturdays from 8 am - 12 pm

 Early bird gets the breakfast!
Saturdays with Tabula Rasa 8 am - 10 am

 
Tabula Rasa on Glade is now offering delicious farm breakfast items to-go Saturday mornings from 8 am – 10 am. Check out their current breakfast menu below. Where in Blacksburg can your belly get a better start to the weekend?
 
Wilted spinach and garlic, duck egg and Looking Glass Creamery “Ridgeline” cheese biscuit  $9
Add TR bacon $2
 
Johnny cakes with Va. butter and maple syrup $7
 
Veggie and duck egg frittata with Curtin’s chèvre and sunflower seeds on spring greens $9
 
Home fries with onion, green pepper and espelette $7
Add Curtin’s chèvre or Looking Glass Creamery “Ridgeline“ cheese $2
 
Buttermilk biscuit and roasted red pepper sausage gravy with home fries and a duck egg your way $11
 
Stay tuned for Tabula Rasa’s Sunday brunch starting May 4th  from 11 am – 2pm!
Kids in the Dirt Summer Farm Education Series
kicks off next Saturday 4/20

We're excited to offer our first series of farm-ucation workshops as a collaboration between the New River Land Trust and us at Glade Road Growing. Led by Katie Erwin and Melissa Henry, these fun workshops offer:

  • Hands-on education for kids that engages all the senses
  • Opportunity to connect with nature, inspiring curiosity and wonder
  • Exposure to and participation in planting, growing, harvesting and preparing food
  • Freedom to explore and play on the farm
  • Practical skill-building that boosts confidence

From seed starting to harvesting, garden art to feeding the animals, this fun and interactive series throughout the summer gets your kids up close and personal with local food production.  Supplies and a farm-based snack provided for each workshop. 

This series is geared towards kids ages 5-12. All workshops held Saturdays, from 12 pm – 2 pm at Glade Road Growing and are $17 each.

Workshop Dates

Saturday April 20th: Soil, Seeds and Scavenger Hunt

Saturday May 11th: Garden Workday

Saturday June 1st: Garden Art

Saturday June 22nd: Farm Animal Meet & Greet

Saturday July 13th: Field to Plate

Saturday August 10th: Seed Saving

Registration required. Registration for each workshop closes on the prior Wednesday.

Join Scarlett Williams here at Glade Road Growing for our first week-long farm-to-table cooking camp! Nothing tastes better than a meal that is freshly harvested out of the ground. Bring your young chef’s epicurean enthusiasm back to the source of the ingredients: land, soil, seeds, animals, plants and more. Campers will explore how to grow and cook a farm-fresh meal from the ground up using ingredients that are in season and grown here on our working farm. After getting their hands dirty, kids will wash up and commence cooking. This camp is a fun way to develop social skills, teamwork, expand your child’s palate, and their love of the outdoors.

Parents are invited to join their campers for a Friday meal to enjoy what their kids have learned that week. Optional extracurricular field trips also planned to neighboring farms.
Camp runs July 22-26 from 9 am - 3 pm and is geared towards kids ages 6-13. Cost is $255. 

For complete cooking camp registration forms and to pay, please contact Scarlett Williams at scarlettwilliamslpc@gmail.com.

Saturday Farm Warriors Volunteer Work Days
next is Saturday, May 4th

Thank you to the crew that came out this past week to help us get our seed potatoes in!
You too can join us the first Saturday morning of each month through October to bang out some hand-dirtying farm work in a fun atmosphere. Please wear clothes and footwear suitable for physical outside work. 

We'll meet at 9 am and work til around noon. If you are coming late, just ask for our location around the farm at the farm market we'll have going on up top at the same time. Deliciously free lunch provided by Tabula Rasa on Glade to follow.

Please RSVP here if you plan on attending so we can prepare enough food and projects. Thank you in advance for your hard work and camaraderie!

Main season bags this year run May 7- Oct 29 (the full 6 months) with Tuesday on-farm pick up and delivery to Vintage Cellar, Rainbow Riders, Moog and now Mine, Me and US Montessori School.

Out of town a lot? Like to pick out your own veggies? Consider our farm debit card  which offers the most flexibility for your busy vegetable-eating life!

Remember, Farm Share Member Appreciation Night is tonight! Farm tour starts at 5:30 pm, plus we've got a piglet to admire, 25% off Tabula Rasa on Glade and delicious giveaways all to be had!

Thanks for making us your farm!
-Sally
your farm is
Glade Road Growing
www.gladeroadgrowing.com
 fed by
Tabula Rasa on Glade
www.tabularasaonglade.com
and hydrated by
Rising Silo Brewery
www.risingsilobrewery.com
Farm located at 2351 Glade Road, Blacksburg, Virginia
www.gladeroadgrowing.com
 
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