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High Seasonal Tunnel


Innovation Helps Fuel Growth for Winter Farmers Markets

December 05, 2012 Arthur Neal, Deputy Administrator, AMS Transportation and Marketing

This is one of my favorite times of the year. New and old traditions bring friends and family together to celebrate, cheer for their favorite football teams or just to share a hearty meal and some spirited conversations. As the weather gets cooler, my family gravitates toward comfort foods and...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Hmong Farmers Extend the Chilly Massachusetts Growing Season

March 31, 2011 Diane Baedeker Petit, NRCS Massachusetts

The near-record snowfall in Massachusetts this winter did not deter farmer Pa Thao. In fact, it strengthened his resolve to make sure that nothing happened to the high tunnel that he put up last fall, so that it would be there when he’s ready to plant mustard greens and pea tendrils in the early...

Conservation

Alabama Landowner Grows Produce in Winter, Models Conservation Practices

January 07, 2011 Fay Garner, NRCS Alabama

On a recent December day, Earl and Clarisse Snell, of Skipperville, Alabama, proudly showed off the summer squash and tomatoes they were still growing at the start of winter thanks to the seasonal high tunnel they built earlier in the year. Also called hoop houses, seasonal high tunnels look a lot...

Conservation
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