The New Greenhouse

Here's a picture Freddie took yesterday of the new greenhouse.  Lettuce coming right up!

The New Greenhouse is Running...

Today was a big celebration day for us!  Our new greenhouse is up and running.  Here are some pictures from our day.

Heather &  Sharon transplanting the first lettuces.

Fred Sr. calculating.

Fred & Sharon

I guess Freddie was the photographer!  We missed his picture.

Greenhouse #3: Completed.

The greenhouse structure is up!  We are very pleased with it. 
Now it is our turn to fill the inside of it.

This picture was taken before clean-up.



Building Day #4 & #5

Fans are put in and some of the clear siding.  Plastic should be going on soon.  Not too many pictures today as we are busy harvesting your lettuce!



Building Day #3

More structural beams & gutters.  The posts are set in over 5 tons of concrete! 

The builders had another busy, hot day.



Building Day #2

Trusses are up!


You can tell how much bigger the greenhouse is compared to our others. 
More lettuce coming up....!

Building Day #1

All is going well.  Steel posts are concreted in.  Here are pictures at the end of Day #1.

***NEWS ALERT***

Building for Greenhouse #3 is to begin next Monday.  Here we go!

Greenhouse #3

Our third greenhouse -- a steel structure -- is to be built in July.  Being three times as big as our others allows us plenty of room this time.  We have definitely outgrown the others.  Below is a picture of the prep work.  Fred has been getting the site ready for the builders.



Inside the greenhouse, the cherry tomatoes plants are loaded.  They are delicious and you will be seeing them at Market.

Timber!

Well, my blogging has not been too good recently! The greenhouse business has kept us busy. We are planning ahead to building our 3rd greenhouse. However, we had 60 pine trees either in the way or putting our houses at risk. So...the big project was felling the trees. Between Fred, Freddie & special help from family, the trees are all down & thankfully, no accidents!

Greenhouse Construction

We are expanding! Construction on the new greenhouse began several weeks ago. Today, the plastic sides are going up. Plenty of work remains, but here are some progress photos.