After having a quick dinner in my hotel room while watching Dawn of the Dead (the modern version) on SY FY, I went down to the car to get some bottled water and bumped into one of my classmates, Joe. There are 4 of us from the training program in this hotel: Me, Joe, Bart, and Tom. Joe told me that the guys were going for a beer and dinner and he invited me to come along. It was great fun and I'm so glad I went. I was at first worried that having dinner and drinks with a bunch of older married men would be weird... but Joe isn't that much older than me. And honestly, I'm a NYC girl. I can easily handle ANY weird social situation. And on the scale of weird social situations; being a single woman out to dinner with a bunch of married men.... this was a minus10 in my book. The real truth is that I'm prone to worrying.
Anyway, this afternoon we spent a lot of time at the greenhouses and I took a bunch of photos before my phone died:
The elevated hoop house is the big structure you see in the back. There are two troughs here- the one in the front has freshly planted vegetables but doesn't have a shade cover. The far one has more mature plants and has a shade cover. The front trough NEEDS a shade cover badly.
The two tanks on the left- with the green rims- are breeding tanks for the tilapia. When it starts to get cold, the fish in those tanks will be transferred to indoor tanks. The table is just a work table and the structure in the back... well, that's just a project Randy is working on.
This is the Chinese style greenhouse from the front. The big black tub is there to collect rain water.
The view of Randy's house (the classroom in in the walk out basement) from the Chinese style greenhouse.
A white kitten who is proving to be a terrible barn cat but OMG he's adorable. Randy might have to get rid of him because he's not doing his job as a barn cat. So he will end up as a house cat... maybe at my house?!
This is the plastic pot that the plants grow in when in the rafts in the troughs. You can see plants growing out of some that are actually IN the rafts, in the background.
Inside the Chinese style greenhouse. That's Tim's arm you see there...
Also inside the Chinese style greenhouse. That's Randy bending over there...
The back wall of the Chinese style greenhouse is where the tomatoes are grown. This whole set-up is for experimenting and for show. Randy builds these for people.
This is a view of the back room of the Chinese style greenhouse. There are two fish tanks that are back there, but it's still a work in progress. You can see Randy standing next to one of the tanks and in the foreground are my classmates Joe on the left and Lars on the right.
This is a more traditional style hoop house greenhouse. It's lifted off the ground a bit by poles. It's also re-configured to incorporate the best parts of the Chinese style greenhouse. This is the type that would be best for Aaron and me, once we really get up and running. The trough on the left needs to be harvested. The trough on the right shows what it's like without any rafts on it. There are about 4 air stones in there.
This is the far end of a seedling bed. It gets watered with the fish water twice a day from the bottom up.
This is my teacher, Tim.
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