High Tunnel Build and Learn Weekend: August 30+31 in Hugo, MN
Fri, Aug 30
|Mhonpaj's Garden
Join in to build a high tunnel hoop house! You'll also learn about federal farm programs that can help you install one on your own farm.
Time & Location
Aug 30, 2024, 9:00 AM – Aug 31, 2024, 5:00 PM
Mhonpaj's Garden, 4635 165th St N, Hugo, MN 55038, USA
About the event
Come help construct a USDA-funded high tunnel August 30 and 31!
Led by farmers Mhonpaj Lee and Phanat Vang, along with Go Farm Connect and UDSA staff, participants can help assemble the hoophouse while learning about buying land, growing produce, keeping records, and working with federal programs. Participants may watch and learn without participating, if they are not able. There will be instructional sessions on the full hoophouse build process, and lunch presentations about United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) farm programs to obtain funds to build one.
Traditional Hmong food will be provided to attendees!
Mhonpaj Lee will do a tour and share with farmers their journey on getting that land, the record keeping process, and the types of services that they have received with USDA. Lee became her own broker and looked for land for her family farm by herself because it was difficult to work with traditional…