Showing posts with label hoophouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hoophouse. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Hoophouse Raising!
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Our newest hoophouse that you have all been hearing about will be ready for its covering on Sunday, June 1st at 10am!
We will need all the help we can get to maneuver 4,500 square feet of plastic into proper alignment! Anyone and everyone are welcome to come out and assist! Much like an old-fashioned barn raising, we’ll all work together to get the hoophouse covered and then there will be food to celebrate the fact that we didn’t get to see a huge sheet of plastic floating its way across the Palouse.
Please come on out at 10am on Sunday June 1st, bring a small dish to share, Omache Farm will provide meat. After the hoophouse plastic is in place, we'll enjoy good food, good company and a farm walkabout. You can see where we grow your food!
No experience of any sort will be necessary, even older children can help. (Our children will eagerly and happily show off their best farm hiding places to children too small to help.) We would love it if you could set aside part of Sunday, June 1st to come out to the farm and participate in the growth of our farm!
RSVP is appreciated: OmacheFarm@gmail.com
We will need all the help we can get to maneuver 4,500 square feet of plastic into proper alignment! Anyone and everyone are welcome to come out and assist! Much like an old-fashioned barn raising, we’ll all work together to get the hoophouse covered and then there will be food to celebrate the fact that we didn’t get to see a huge sheet of plastic floating its way across the Palouse.
Please come on out at 10am on Sunday June 1st, bring a small dish to share, Omache Farm will provide meat. After the hoophouse plastic is in place, we'll enjoy good food, good company and a farm walkabout. You can see where we grow your food!
No experience of any sort will be necessary, even older children can help. (Our children will eagerly and happily show off their best farm hiding places to children too small to help.) We would love it if you could set aside part of Sunday, June 1st to come out to the farm and participate in the growth of our farm!
RSVP is appreciated: OmacheFarm@gmail.com
Jason, Ronn and Aaron (Jason's Brother) putting up the last two hoops last October
All the hoops are up! First purlin in the works.
Needs just one more purlin and the hipboard on the far side. Just about ready for plastic!
Thursday, April 12, 2012
V. 1.5 & 2.0
Finally! the hoophouses are up, covered and the first has it's endwalls on and the first plant starts adjusting.
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It was quite the feat. step one: get volunteers committed. Step two, get volunteers re-committed to a new weekend that had less wind and luckily beautiful weather! Step three: get everyone present and on the same page.
Once everyone was here and in place, we tried waiting for a dead spot in the wind but if you're familiar with the palouse, dead spots in winds never come until the hottest day in August. So we decided there would be enough of us and started hauling on the ropes to pull the plastic over the hoophouse. Lots of adjusting and wiggle wire later, we had two brand new hoophouses.
Then it was time for lunch. Pulled pork, baked beans, mashed potatoes and Challah bread with some of HM and A's dyed Easter eggs in the braid. All home-made!
There's more pictures in our Facebook Album. This album should be view-able even if you do not have a Facebook account.
We'd like to thank profusely those folks kind enough to give up their Sunday morning to lend us a hand: Mom & Dad, Josey & Lindsey, Debi & Dave, Eric & Betty, Devon, Alden, Brendan, Nate & friends, Lauren, Derek & Keri, Erin. We could not have done it without all of you!
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
HoopHouse v. 1.5
Well, our brand new hoophouse almost survived the winter. We had some snow storms move through the palouse in January that even closed WSU! (Incredible!) With all the snow (somewhere between 2 and 3 feet total over just a few days) we went out and checked on our hoophouse in addition to checking on sheep. Jason brushed the light powdery snow from the hoophouse thinking it would be fine. Later that evening, the snow switched to wet, thick and heavy. In just a few hours, enough snow collected on top of the hoophouse between hoops to crush the entire thing. The end walls were strong enough to support the end hoops but every other hoop went from a half circle to M-shaped.
If it weren't for the ladder in the middle, the plastic would have remained entirely intact.
Unfortunately our walk-behind rototiller was also inside, under a hoop. The handle assembly was snapped clean off. Guess we'll have to get a replacement part for that as well.
This is the first time Jason can remember being thankful that he didn't finish a project (hoophouse 2.0) before the deadline (winter). If he had, we'd be replacing 80%-95% of 2 hoophouses instead of just one.
We have a plan of action to repair and replace the necessary parts of hoophouse #1 and we'll be using a portion of our tax return to finish out #2. Both hoophouses will be completed before we need to grow in them this season.
We are thankful for not having finished a project as well as for the many friends who upon hearing of the disaster, have immediately offered their help with anything in regards to rebuilding. (Of course we will be taking folks up on those offers soon!)
We are blessed indeed.
If it weren't for the ladder in the middle, the plastic would have remained entirely intact.
Unfortunately our walk-behind rototiller was also inside, under a hoop. The handle assembly was snapped clean off. Guess we'll have to get a replacement part for that as well.
This is the first time Jason can remember being thankful that he didn't finish a project (hoophouse 2.0) before the deadline (winter). If he had, we'd be replacing 80%-95% of 2 hoophouses instead of just one.
We have a plan of action to repair and replace the necessary parts of hoophouse #1 and we'll be using a portion of our tax return to finish out #2. Both hoophouses will be completed before we need to grow in them this season.
We are thankful for not having finished a project as well as for the many friends who upon hearing of the disaster, have immediately offered their help with anything in regards to rebuilding. (Of course we will be taking folks up on those offers soon!)
We are blessed indeed.
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