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The Urban Horticulture Center (UHC) of Virginia Tech, located about three miles from campus on Prices Fork Road, was established in 1989. The purpose of the UHC is to provide an indoor work area, field space, and equipment for research that supports the nursery and landscape industry as well as other commodities. There are currently eight different faculty members with projects at the site. The site, a former research orchard, initially included about 4 acres of land, and a 32’ x 50’ research building. Recent additions to the building include a 32’ x 25’ laboratory, rest room, 10’ x 12’ walk-in cooler, and a 20’ x 45’ equipment storage building. We have also recently added a new graveled pad for container growing. There are unheated poly houses for winter protection of container-grown plants as well as a pot-in-pot growing area. There is an adjacent 10 acres available for expansion as the need dictates, of which one acre was recently fenced to provide growing space to evaluate new plant introductions collected on plant expedition trips as well as from breeding programs within the department.
