Efforts are underway to build and support local food producers and get their produce to area consumers. A comprehensive assessment has been made of the region's farms was conducted by Ken Meter
Source of information: Martinsville Bulletin, Jan. 14, page 3A.
Ken Meter is from Crossroads Resource Center in Minneapolis, MN.
His study results were revealed on January 14, 2010 at the Patrick Henry Community College building Stuart, VA.
It was reported at this meeting that Agriculture and Forestry is the number 1 industry in Virginia. There are 47,000 farms in Virginia with 8 million acres of land.
There are 41,000 Virginia farms with gross receipts of less than $50,000.
Other speakers include:
Travis Bunn, Eric Bendfeldt and Dr. Martha Walker of the Virginia Cooperative Extension
Patrick County has:
16 apple orchards
16 peach orchards
12 cabbage producers
8 pumpkin producers
5 Cherry orchards
4 squash producers
4 sweet corn producers
3 pepper producers
2 potato producers
2 brocolli producers
2 chilantro producers
3 cucumber producers
