New Hoophouses, Infrastructure Takes Time

Parts for the new hoophouses have begun to arrive on the farm and there are now piles of what look like scrap metal lining the main road through the farm.  The site work for the hoophouses is also underway, which has entailed bringing in vast amounts of topsoil to level off the field that they’re going in. Right now the field has a moon-scape quality to it, but with all the rain we’re supposed to get in the coming days soon it will just look like a vast amount of mud.

Having the farm turn into one large construction zone feels like a return to spring in its own way as well.  Then, the entirety of our growing area was chopped up by 4 foot trenches running new water lines across the farm.  Establishing all of the infrastructure needed to run a farm takes way more time than anticipated, and involves starting new projects the second the growing season begins to wind down. 

—Robin Hackett, Farm Manager