High tunnel greenhouse

Our experience with getting a high tunnel for free with a NRCS high tunnel grant. Here's what you need to know.

Learn about the key differences between a high tunnel and a greenhouse and find the best choice for your home or business from the experts at Bootstrap Farmer.

Make high tunnels more profitable for crop production by installing a system to catch, store, and reuse the rainwater from periodic rain events. The authors describe system components, give approximate costs, and detail year-round maintenance procedures. Also described is a drip irrigation system.

A high tunnel is a protective elongated structure covering your soil, wherein you plant your plants directly in the ground as you normally would.

In this DIY dispatch, regular contributor, Lily Jackson, tells her family's story of building a 14.5' x 32' high tunnel.

Through a reimbursement grant, the NRCS high tunnel program makes purchasing a high tunnel easy. We outline the NRCS high tunnel program, and provide steps to receive grant funding

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High tunnels provide many of the benefits of a greenhouse but with much reduced cost, and their use is allowing some greenhouse operators to capture profits

For a small investment you can double your food production. Words: Ben Gaia Whether home-made or custom-designed, having a large covered area in our climate enables us to extend our range of growing times and species. Veges can be grown right through the frosty months, providing salads and peas for home use. Propagating under cover gets your seedlings going weeks ahead of normal, allowing for late spring planting after frosts. Spring sees the propagating trays fill the floor and every…

Making some simple improvements to your high tunnels can greatly improve your indoor productivity and efficiency. Here are a few upgrades to consider. 📸 AgriLife Today/Flickr

We built this awesome greenhouse with us and other people like us in mind. If you have a little knowledge of building things with your hands you can do...

Homesteaders who are trying to earn a portion of their income by selling produce must find a way to increase the amount of growing time their Hardiness Zone gives them. If your growing season is twenty weeks, making the bulk of your income from your garden is going to be difficult. If

Roger Cook helps a homeowner build a simple, affordable backyard greenhouse. (See the shopping list and tools below.)SUBSCRIBE to This Old House: http://bit....

Let's start by getting the semantics out of the way; we built a 'hoop-house' that is strictly for starting seedlings, so technically we built a 'prop-house' (propagation house). It's a fairly simple...

Hoop house from @meadowridgeperennials

In this post, we provide a list of the 10 most essential hardware components required if you are looking to build your own high tunnel, hoop house, or greenhouse.

The first step is deciding where you want to possition the tunnel and how big you want to make it. The garden here runs North South with the house at the southern end. A line of tall conifers 35 fe…

The best crops to grow in a winter high tunnel are those that already do well in the cold. In this post, we outline the best crops to plant in a high tunnel for winter harvests.