Kentland Farm

The College Farm Operation is composed of six tracts of land totaling 3,200 acres, all located in the Blacksburg area. The Department of Horticulture field experiments are located in historic Kentland Farm (http://www.vaes.vt.edu/colleges/kentland/collegefarm.html), with 400 acres of field plots and over 600 acres of wild life sanctuary, 20 minutes from campus.

The Farm accommodates tree fruit orchards (primarily apple, peaches and pears), small fruit trials (primarily strawberry) and vegetable research plots under traditional and heavy life mulch no-till permanent bed system. Since 2002, we also initiated organic horticulture research program and in 2003 an additional five acres was allocated for the organic transition program. Our facilities include two general-purpose buildings located near orchards and site irrigation stations. The current Farm administration building has been allocated to us for the organic horticulture program