High Tunnel Intensive

 

High tunnels, hoop houses, and greenhouses are one of the best tools growers of the northeast have to significantly increase their production, maintain a year-round market, and boost their bottom line. With proper management, a high tunnel investment can pay for itself in just one or two seasons. Presenters Andrew Mefferd and Michael Kilpatrick, both veteran organic farmers from the Northeast, have worked for years to optimize the use of this simple but powerful tool for other farmers.

 

This all-day interactive intensive, ideal for the intermediate or advanced grower, is intended to bring your management of tunnels to the next level. Whether you’re grappling with questions about when and how to heat your tunnel, how to push your season extension further, which varietals are worth growing, or how to optimize crop successions for year-round production, this intensive will provide you insight and inspiration for the next growing season and beyond.

 

 

• Which crops are worth growing and why?
• Optimizing crop successions for maximum yield
• Irrigation, plastic, tech tools, and infrastructure options
• How to push the season even further
• On-site high tunnel visit and audit at Stonehill College Farm
• Heating: when, why, how, and how much?
• Adapting the lessons of the most successful commercial greenhouse growers for organic/biological systems
• NRCS representative to answer questions about high tunnel grants
• Guest presenters highlighting their innovative practices