Homefield Farm at Virginia Tech

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Homefield Farm at Virginia Tech

Homefield Farm is Virginia Tech's 12-acre student-driven farm, 8 miles from campus. It supplies 45,000lbs of produce to dining yearly.

Experiential farming environment for volunteers & students. Collaborative effort between Dining Services, CALS, & SPES. Here’s your chance to be a part of Virginia Tech’s agricultural influence–even if you’re not in the College of Agriculture. Forging a connection with your food is an important one to make, so we are providing opportunities for you to do just that at the Dining Services Garden. The Dining Services Garden is three acres of diverse vegetable and fruit production at VT’s research farm Kentland. The garden is providing local, organic produce to the Dining Centers. We need your help to harvest, plant, cultivate, and nurture all the vegetables that we are growing. You will have the farm to fork experience, seeing the process of vegetable growing from seed to plant to plate. Come learn about gardening and give us a hand growing the food that you and your Hokie community eat in Virginia Tech’s dining centers. For our wonderful volunteers:
As with other farm work, gardening is dirty. Wear clothes that you find appropriate to get muddy, dirty, or otherwise. Solid, closed-toed footwear is preferred. Bring a hat, sunscreen, and water to stay cool and hydrated. Pay attention to announcement emails in case certain activities require certain clothing choices (i.e wearing long sleeves to harvest zucchini). Projects vary, as does the type of vegetable or herbs being harvested, planted and tended. Thank you for visiting the page. Please leave any comments, questions, concerns, or anything else you would like on the wall. To contact someone directly email [email protected] and we'll get back in touch with you as soon as possible.

03/20/2026

Some lavender sprouts popping in to say hi just in time for spring!🪻

03/05/2026

last spring's basil in the SPES greenhouse getting watered!🌱

📸Photo taken by Darren Van D**e for Virginia Tech

01/29/2026

This snowy weather has us dreaming of warmer days! our sunflowers from this past June 🌻

01/22/2026

Throw back to in 2016🌿🛻

11/13/2025

Nothing beats a freshly picked apple, especially from Homefield Farm!🍎🌳

10/30/2025

Our highlight reel from the Fall Harvest Festival this year 🎞️🫑🍁 Now the countdown for the 2026 festival is on!

📸Photos by Darren Van D**e for Virginia Tech

10/23/2025

It's officially fall on the farm! Check out some of our pumpkins from Dr. Rideout's lab!🎃

📸Photo taken by Darren Van D**e for Virginia Tech

09/18/2025

What the shirt says.

09/04/2025

Some views that we won't be getting over anytime soon 🌈🌻

05/14/2025

Checkout our Assistant Farm Manager, Courtney, one of our seasonal workers, Reagan, and the sprouts they've helped grow this season! These sprouts are located in one of the SPES Greenhouses on Virginia Tech's campus, which has around 43,000 square feet of greenhouse space that we are lucky to have access to!🪴

📸Photo taken by Darren Van D**e for Virginia Tech

Address

5250 Whitethorne Road
Blacksburg, VA
24060

Website

https://www.dining.vt.edu/sustainability/homefieldfarm.html

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