Greenhouse

One Love Farm's new greenhouse
We have wanted a greenhouse for many years at One Love Farm. This year we finally got one. Rather than buying a prefab greenhouse or building one with wood and framed out walls, we used a hoop house design and built the greenhouse ourselves.

We used PVC pipe, rebar, clamps and heavy duty plastic. The total cost of materials was about $100! It took one afternoon to construct the frame and one afternoon to pull the plastic over the frame and secure it.

The difference in temperature is amazing. It is 40 degrees in Rhode Island today and with the wind it is very raw outside. Once we finished building the greenhouse, I took a thermometer into the greenhouse. It reads 66 degrees. I think our seedings will very much enjoy their new environment.