09/10/2026
🚜 This past week we've been “flipping” the high tunnels: pulling out our summer tomatoes, preparing the soil, and planting the next round of crops that will be a part of our late fall and winter harvest. We have 5 high tunnels on the farm (with plans for 2 more) and while that is a small portion of our overall acreage, these tunnels produce a lot of food, and play a very specific role during certain seasons and for certain crops.
The principal role of high tunnels is crop protection: protecting crops from extreme cold and protected crops from too much moisture. The protection from cold allows for earlier harvests in the spring and later harvests in the winter of spinach, lettuce, and brassica greens. Protection from too much moisture is critical for the quality of our hyloom and cherry tomatoes, all of which are grown in the tunnels.
This past week, Bucky, Charlotte, Don Chepe, P**i, and Antonio worked to remove all the slicer plants, incorporate our wood chip compost, prep the beds, and plant our late season crops of spinach, lettuce, and celery!
