How a Small Urban Farm in Virginia Beach Yields Enough Produce to Supply 2 Local Markets

“Amanda Gerber never meant for this to happen. But there she was one day last week, dressed in a straw hat, jeans and fancy, dirt-caked cowboy boots, tromping out of a raised bed where she had been tearing out spent green bean plants.

“It’s a little overwhelming,” said Gerber, a mother of two and co-owner of Nottalotta Acres, a patchwork farm of 10 parcels totaling about 3 acres scattered around two neighborhoods in the Bayside section of Virginia Beach.

Not a lot of acres. Get it?”

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