The new greenhouse is here!!

Early this morning our new greenhouse frame arrived!! We are planning to put two real professional greenhouses in our field south of the barn. The first one arrived and will go up this fall. We aren't sure if we will get to the second one before the ground freezes, in which case it will go up first thing in the spring. The single layer, unheated, hoophouses we have built have helped us extend the season, but they cannot match the season extension, reliability, and consistency of a real, heated greenhouse.

This is the field before the pipes go up.

This is Ed Person from Ledgewood Farm and Greenhouses, delivering our frame. Ed is a vegetable farmer, but he has developed a separate business building greenhouse frames for other veggie farmers. He is THE authority on greenhouses in northern New England. And he was here, today, hanging out on our farm! He is kind of like a veggie farmer rock star, and it was great to meet him and work with him. He is wicked knowledgeable and spent a bunch of time with me making sure I had some small inkling about how to get the frame constructed once he left.

Uhhh . . . where are those directions???

We still have some site work to do, but we will keep you posted as this one goes up. I can almost taste those early tomatoes now . . .