Newsletter Date
Volume 1, Issue 1
Arthur & Friends has been hard at work setting up the greenhouse at Maple Farm in Wantage,
NJ! It took months of work to get the greenhouse set up for our hydroponic growing system with
the majority of the work focused on...
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Newsletter Date
Volume 1, Issue 1
Arthur & Friends has been hard at work setting up the greenhouse at Maple Farm in Wantage,
NJ! It took months of work to get the greenhouse set up for our hydroponic growing system with
the majority of the work focused on getting the floor level.
The pictures at the left illustrate the
many stages of the transformation.
We began with the greenhouse still full from the previous
years planting of tomatoes, squash and pepper plants in raised beds that had an underground
irrigation system, which had to be dismantled and removed.
Next the floor had to be leveled and
pea gravel… 28 tons … had to be spread overtop of the surface.
It was an exciting day when the big green tractor trailer arrived from California with our system.
We had to unload the entire trailer by hand and then move everything to the greenhouse for
assembly.
The next step was to put the 124’ of growing tables together, which six very
hardworking volunteers each gave many dozens of hour
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