In July 2010, our beautiful 1200 sq. ft. High Tunnel Cold Frame Greenhouse was a main part of our garden experience....

 

 

but before this came along, we learned about and built some hoophouses, so we could extend our growing season. 

 

 

 

 

The following website gives specific instructions on how to build it.  This is what we followed.

 

http://westsidegardener.com/howto/hoophouse.html

 

 

This is a one-hour Garden Class I presented in my Greenhouse that was published nationwide

The sign up period for the Organics Initiative has been extended and high tunnels are an approved practice. For more information, please contact Cam Deligatti in Tooele for Tooele and Salt Lake counties and Danny McBride for Morgan, Weber and Davis counties. For more info:  http://www.ut.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/EQIP/2011/organic.html.