Tokabago Farm

  Winds tore through our hoop houses and tore them mostly to shreds. We were just getting ready to transition to a new site in Waimea and this event added a new urgency to move the schedule up. The new greenhouse with...renovations. Kenji strapping down the blown out side of our big greenhouse The Waimea site had already existing greenhouses, some with covers and some not. We leased two of them, each 96 feet x 30 feet and 20 feet tall. Old irrigation was also in place making repairs and upgrades not too hard. Water pressure was also great so no need for pumping.  The new greenhouse in Waimea. This one had plastic in place already. Solar panels are moved from the Lī huʻe site. Kenji screwing in the post based. the ground is rock hard here so we used a small auger to drill holes. Setting up greenhouse  two for plastic installation. Greenhouse two was full of desiccated tomato plants and weeds. Much cleaning. Corteva, our landlords, provided a dumpster to help. Super helpful...

 This is a catch-up post since we haven't updated in a while... Since our last post a lot has happened. We moved 30 miles West to Waimea  at the end of our GoFarm Incubator program and have been busy installing systems their while keeping production as active as possible. The environment and problems in Waimea are quite different , but I will get to that later. First, an update on our work at the GoFarm site. We finished the 850 gallon reservoir and installed a pressure tank and pump to feed our screenhouses. The pressure tank is a 40 gallon model from the Home Depot with a pressure regular and one way check valve connected by 1-1/2" PVC pipes. We hooked it into the regular irrigation system so we could bypass the reservoir and use the GoFarm system when water was available. It also made it easy to fill the reservoir whenever we ran irrigation. The diversion at the bottom was for a venturi  fertigation system that we used to feed the shadehouse plants. The pump motor was ...