My Weekend Project

This is a photo of the old greenhouse here at Liberty Farm. My project this weekend was cleaning up the inside. With so much other work to do in the 8 months we've lived here, the inside of the greenhouse has been more or less abandoned for well over a year. There were weeds growing inside up to the height of the top row of windows.

When we moved here, the back room, which is about 1/3 of the width of the building, was mostly open as the walls had fallen in. We reinforced the framing and sided it with T1-11. This was winter housing for our layer flock.

Unfortunately, the side facing us in the photo faces east and is only about 25 feet (8 m) from the side of the house so it only gets direct sunlight for a couple hours a day. The south side (left in the photo) is glazed as well. I would like to build a lean-to on this side with a 30-degree pitched roof and glaze it all with double-wall polycarbonate. We could have a nice little bed for growing winter greens for fresh salads all winter.

On an unrelated note, I don't know if Blogger was having problems yesterday evening or if it was just me. I was unable to post. Of course, out here in the sticks with our old copper we can only connect at 26.4 kbps on dial-up. There is no cable or DSL. The only high speed option is satellite which costs beaucoup bucks for equipment purchase and installation - not to mention about three times more for the monthly service than we pay now. We may bite the bullet and install it this summer.

weather today: 24°F/41°F sunny, breezy