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It’s high tunnel build day!

By High Rocks|October 15th, 2020|High Rocks, Uncategorized|2 Comments

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  1. Casey Withers October 28, 2020 at 5:31 pm - Reply

    What a beautiful day of community engagement in action. High Rocks, of course, had a huge presence on this two day high tunnel build that took place on Oct. 14 & 15, 2020. Members of Sprouting Farms were present to help lead the construction, along with other strong partners from the community, and WVU extension. This high tunnel is 30 ft wide by 96 ft long, so it was not tiny. We are still riding a wave of gratitude from those two days. We hope to complete the construction process over the next two weeks. Some tasks left are, finishing the end walls, adding a ridge vent to the top of the structure, adding wind up sides, and putting on two layers of plastic. Thankfully, we have gotten off to a great start, and hope to have crops in there sooner than later! This tunnel will be used for market production as part of our youth agricultural development program, Ruby Grow.

  2. Nathan Tawney October 28, 2020 at 6:20 pm - Reply

    Through my experience of the project it was pretty interesting to say the least. I hadn’t got into the building portion yet, but going through the kit was a task in itself. While sorting the vast variety of screws, bolts, nuts, and etc I realized how important organization is to make sure a project goes smoothly, while conquering this task it was also a learning experience in terms of learning names of the pieces and how they’re used. Overall just by sorting and labeling the pieces I truly realized how much was actually in the project and how important it was for every piece to be accounted for.

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