High Tunnel

We started our high tunnel last Friday, it snowed on Saturday.  God has a great sense of humor.  The high tunnel will allow us to plant several weeks before we could normally get plants in the ground.  This will give us fresh vegetables earlier than if we wait until the last frost to plant.  It will also allow us to plant later this year and have our cold weather crops last late into the season.  

This is a fairly new concept in farming.  The tunnel looks like a plastic greenhouse, the difference is that it is directly over the ground.  You do not plant in containers, as in a traditional greenhouse, you plant in the ground.  You gain valuable time by planting this way.

We have started with a small tunnel this year.  If it is successful then next year we will expand with more, and larger, tunnels.

The other fun news is we will add 60 new chickens to the farm this week.  So by summer, we will be ready for the great masses of people that desire fresh farm eggs.