The sun beats down and the temperature is 100-plus degrees as Cam Terry works his way down a row with a shovel.
“I am hilling potatoes,” Terry says. “I just took a plow and cut this trench alongside the potatoes and now I’m throwing loose dirt up on them. That helps us increase our yields a little bit because everywhere where that stem is coming into contact with the soil and is watered will produce potato tubers. So we’re doing a little bit of manual labor.”
Terry operates Lick Run Farm, based in the heart of Roanoke…