What an exciting day last Friday! In the midst of Black Friday, deer hunting, and holiday travel, about twelve hearty volunteers from yoga co-students, tai chi students and teacher, CSA members, friends all came out to help pull the plastic on the new mobile greenhouse.
As usual I missed the big dramatic pull as I was cooking and directing people to site. But unlike the other big pull, I did get to participate. Once the plastic is pulled, it
is stretched evenly into place and bent wire called wiggle wire is snapped into a metal channel to hold the plastic in place at the shoulder.
Then more wiggle wire is set in place to hold the plastic just above the crank part way down the sides. Then the plastic is trimmed and flipped so the straight, uncut edge can be placed and set with wiggle wire below the crank for a skirt.
Then sand bags are placed on the skirt to hold it down.
And ropes are zig zagged through loops on the sides.
Meanwhile brave height hearty folk climb up and down ladders to trim the plastic along the arches on the ends. Other people placed the lower skirts on the ends in place with more wiggle wire.
And these amazing people did ALL this in about two hours.
My main job was to reward them with food once the job was complete. We stuffed a squash with brown and wild rice with marinated pork, onion, and herbs. There was also cornbread, sauerkraut, bees with fennel, cultured vegetables, tossed green salad, apple crisp, squash pie, and more desserts brought by workers.
Ken has been working soil and getting ready for planting - hurrah and grateful thanks for all their help.
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