Our USDA EQIP high tunnel grant application didn’t get funded initially, but then USDA found some loose change behind their sofa cushions and belatedly awarded the grant to us. Follow us as we race to get our 30’x95′ veg cathedral completed soon enuf for a Fall crop.
Here is a list of some project milestones:
- Grant contract signed -Done
- Rototill site – Done
- Fed approval of contract – Pending
- Set position of 4 corner posts and check for square
- Order high tunnel kit from Oregon Valley Greenhouse
- Site visit by archeologist and NCRS Cultural Resources approval.
- Preassemble bow assemblies.
- Rent stump grinder to remove 3 stumps
- Roughly level site (max 5% incline allowed) and sculp drainage channels along sides
- Set 4 corner posts
- Install perimeter landscape fabric
- Set side posts
- Mount bows
- Install diagonal bracing on sides
- Construct endwall frame
- Cover endwalls with polycarbonate
- Attach baseboards and hip boards
- Attach wigglewire channel
- Mount poly skin
- Install side roll-up devices