Fall is underway! Cool evenings bring fog rolling-in under spectacular sunsets.

Making Tools

The farm usually requires a good dose of ingenuity here and there. I knew from taking the green-house rafters down, off-site with no equipment, that they were pretty hard to handle whole. I made an attachment for the tractor's pallet forks which allowed us to pick the rafters up off the ground, carry and set them in place on the ground posts.

Efficient

We're conducting a non-scientific experiment on the new greenhouse. To potentially reduce fuel consumption, we've trenched a slot around the perimeter of the greenhouse walls. Then, foam goes in the trench and gets back-filled in place. The theory is that this will keep the frost/cold from encroaching into the interior soil near the walls.

Heating is overhead with forced-air so I thought there might be the potential to have frost in the corners even when the main air volume is 65°F. Then, the heating system is essentially working against an ice-cube with near infinite thermal capacity (outside).
All that said, the difference may be negligible against the losses out the roof and walls but I thought we'd give it a shot. The lady we bought the greenhouse from said it ran about 100gal. of propane a week for her, so that's our only data-point (hence non-scientific). At that burn-rate, anything has to help!

The trench at the far-left of the picture is for the electrical service to the greenhouse and the trench at the bottom is for the propane line.