Last week the class spent Tuesday morning at the Kwantlen TFN Farm School.
The school is conducted on a 20-acres site, allowing for larger scale production than the orchard and campus sites that our students have been managing.
It has two 96-foot high tunnels. One is dedicated entirely to tomato production.
There are a few laying hens already . The farm plan calls for more chickens, along with pigs, goats, and bees.
Vegetable beds are either 100' or 200' long. The cucurbits are grown on black plastic mulch, but the high winds at the site would blow the plastic away if not for the white pipes weighing it down.
Our students planted flats of seeds, which will germinate and grow in the high tunnel before being transplanted out to the field.
They also popped transplant plugs out of trays...
and transplanted them into freshly-tilled beds.
The silty clay soil tends to crust and crack. Building the organic matter content will take many years.
The students hoed weeds between the rows in the high tunnels
and in the field.
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