The greenhouse. That is mom's baby and thus the name of the farm. Everywhere she goes she leaves a greenhouse, each one a little bigger and better than the last one. I think she has finally found "the one."
Her greenhouse has been up for several years and keeps improving season by season. Around May, when the almost-summer sun starts to heat the greenhouse around 120 degrees or so, it is time to put the shade cloth on so the plants can survive, as well as mom be able to work in there.
Bruce, our resident maintenance mechanic, and my husband, had to do some tree trimming inorder to put the folded shade cloth in position. The kids got in there and helped too. Bruce was also the one who directed the folding of the large cloth for correct positioning once it was in place.
We used heavy washers and ropes to throw it across the greenhouse and then tied it down into place.
Once it was on mom was ready to get back in there and get to work. She grows all kinds of plants: herbs, vegetables, house plants, annuals, perennials, plants for the bees, plants to dry and I think we even have some pine trees in the shade house now. She sells them around local little towns and the occasional flea market.
As I said, the greenhouse is mom's baby and I don't really know much about it-yet.
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