Hightunnel – Early Winter Renovations

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Short update sharing a few projects underway in our larger high tunnel… I’d like to really increase the compost heating work in this space and get things wonderfully dialed in this winter so we’re taking little steps as time allows.

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I like to use snow days as days to renovate High tunnel spaces and so recently the other day we worked on renovating the larger high tunnel out at our neighbors uh clearing up the pathway waking up the compost heating system and doing some other tasks ju started by

Clearing the walkway of kale which is kind of sweet the plants had grown so well that in order to even get through one of the walkways we had to harvest a whole bunch of greens wonderful problem I took a little simple battery and hooked it up to an extension cord and a

BGE pump in our pond there’s not uh ice on there yet so we can pull water from the pond to start watering the compost bin which got very very dry using some old scrap hose to bring over to the bin we’ll look at that in a moment really

The work is to go through and take all the weeds and piles of material that have been thrown in the walkway all season and accumulate them into our compost ring on the far end so it’s safer to walk and a little bit cleaner looking here is the compost heating ring

That we set up uh that I really like the the basic idea of and this is where we’re going to send all that material so here Juan is turning the old stuff that had dried out very very thoroughly really really dry by the end of the

Summer so we’re using pond water to just get some hydration back in there to wake it up so that it can keep doing its work we’re not expecting to get extremely hot compost from this but just get the process waking up again once that’s going we can start taking the debris

From the walkways and loading it into the compost ring so W’s using the fork here and scraping and accumulating will smooth out the walkway we might do some other experiments with the walkway later but for now we just want to get it clean and simpler easier to walk very informal

Process here of material in moisture in so it’s kind of bopping the hose around the ice water from the pond definitely is cooling it down but it’s helping wake it up underneath all that is some beautiful compost dumping uh material All Summer in the walkway we got some beautiful worm casting some

Stool layering figs and perennial kale with that compost pile is filled a bit more certainly can put a lot more in there but it’s nice having something like this in a space this size it’s a great destination for material and and now the walkway is a lot safer and smoother to

Walk through to come in and harvest from this tank this is a whole other project but we have our rainwater collection system from up on the hill uh freely pouring into this tank now and so the next step would be to uh cut overhaul overflow valves in the top of that tank

And send it to flood irrigate these different Gardens we’ll detail that in another video soon for sure pathway is clean we can think about a compost wind row in this walkway for the winter to radiate heat through the whole system this winter but that’ll be for another

Time little bites on days like this it’s time to go back in and have some coffee and warm up by the fire and there’s our high tunnel we can close it up for the day for now little winter projects a real pleasure in weather like this thanks for watching