Hoop House
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Turning the Hoop House from Summer to Fall
It’s a process that has been slowly happening over the course of the last month, and it’s a pretty big job to take all these giant plants that have been growing all summer, remove them, and flip five 88-fot beds over to lettuce and greens that will start being available around the end of October… Continue reading
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The Wall of Japanese Cucumbers
A couple years ago we tried these Japanese Shintokiwa cucumbers. I had heard of them, but someone from our CSA gave me one to try and it passed the bar for trial. And so trial we did. That was actually our first trial with cucumber trellising, knowing that we would be building a hoop house… Continue reading
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Collecting Rainwater & Installing RO
With the now-one-year-old-hoop-house, we’ve had to pay a lot of attention to water quality. Simple reason being that once you put up a piece of plastic over the ground, it will never again rain naturally on that ground….therefore it is up to us to provide 100% of the water needs of the crop. This presents… Continue reading
About Graham
Graham is an ecologist-farmer from Canada working on educating about the wonders and beauty of the natural world, and how we can design biodiverse food production systems.
