hoop house
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Building for an Epic Tomato Year
We’re off to a fantastic start for our tomato plan. The hoop house is loaded with baby beefsteaks, the cherry toms are setting out their second tier of flowers and fruit, and the earliest field tomatoes are already in. As soon as the weather went from cold to hot, we started firing on the hot… 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
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Starting the Greenhouse and The Tomato Gap
Yes, its a bit early this year, and that’s because of our hoop house. With only 6 weeks to go until the target transplant date of April 15th, we’ve got to get our Tomatoes and Peppers going earlier this year. It’s always a nice day when finally, after months of winter, you can walk to… 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.
