High Tunnel Build and Learn Weekend: July 20-21 in Deerfield, WI
Sat, Jul 20
|Jer Thao Farm
Join in and help to build a high tunnel hoop house! You'll learn, help, eat, and make great new friends with like-minded farmer peers.
Time & Location
Jul 20, 2024, 8:00 AM – Jul 21, 2024, 5:00 PM
Jer Thao Farm, 3946 WI-73, Deerfield, WI 53531, USA
About the event
Come help construct a USDA-funded EQIP high tunnel July 20th and 21st! Led by Go Farm Connect partners and Golden Sands RC+D, participants will assemble the hoophouse skeleton and attach the plastic. There will be instructional sessions on the full hoophouse build process, from working with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to obtain high tunnel cost share funding to growing produce successfully in the high tunnel.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided to attendees! Breakfast will be served at 7am, before work begins at 8am. Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided by Golden Sands RC+D. Dinner will be traditional Hmong food served at 5:30pm, provided by the farmer Jer Thao and his family.
The farmer hosts for this event are Go Farm Connectors Nicholas Leete and KO Thao, of Rooted WI; Yimmuaj Yang, of Groundswell Conservancy; Chiang Rai Lor, of FairShare CSA Coalition; and Nou Thao, of…