Artur Vangeel

and get the hay off the ground, very important! pallets if you can get them heat threated (HT) works very well imo.
I have put it outside on pallets and pallets all around to give some airflow with a plastic tarp on top. car port (or, imagine that you want a garden next year) or greenhouse/tunnel are better as an extra layer of protection.
If I had to start from scratch I would do:
put the tunnel where it has to come for next seasons veggies, put pallets down so you don't walk on the soil, place the hay on the pallets, pallets on top of the hay, finish with a tarp. With a tunnel, you don't really need sidewalls to your tarp, just to catch drips from condensation. If you have a very dry winter, you might get away without.
Or alternative: start with a bigger carport (if you can afford) than you think you need (same for greenhouse btw) and have a space for the hay and other tools.

as for walls to the carport, weaving with willow works to block rain and look better. Tarps are faster, but ugly imo, trade offs and dicisions ...

We have a pole barn in our setup, the hay is on pallets (dirt floor) and the main rain side is blocked with corrogated steel. The other 3 sides are open and the hay is in the driest corner without additional tarps.


[edit: I had an error, I went out to get fire bricks and replied after and the website requests to 'let them know' in a reply, to avoid clogging up, this edit]

It seems like it is no longer working or rocket ovens are something that works in the USA only
I'm looking to build a pizza oven and a transportable rmh and would like plans and dvd's but as I'm not in the US, that seems to be impossible to get from
Permies?
I have gone through the woodheat.net website, if for some author rights, a different website (that I haven't found yet) is needed,
I would be greatfull if someone can point me there. I have a VAT nr, so with an official invoice, no VAT should be required. For the rmh dvd + plans, this works, but not for the oven plans, they are just unavailable it says.

thank you very much for everything you guys have published, free or payed and the information I can get from this forum. I'm not very active on here as I prefer being outside. But with the new constructions that are in the pipe line, I might be a more frequent guest/scroller and hopefully one day maybe a vallued contributer

Hi
Running a CSA for 7 years now. Business was going well until this year. Personal problems (health) in the crucial publicity period combined with economic challenges more general have made this my first non growth (economic :-p ) year since the start in 2016. Collegues have mentioned simullar challenges of people just not renewing or needing much more convincing where before they had a waiting list.

Some considerations:
- part time veggies = small scale and no winter growing probably, having to convince everyone to return after a few months super market ease.
- location location location. Growing veggies for self harvest in the middle of nowhere is not gonna work. Either move your field to the city or your veggies in boxes.
- make sure to get some schooling in market gardening somewhere and more important, some hands on experience. WWOOF is nice, but a volunteer isn't the samen as an intern!
- don't start too cheap. Seriously raising your price will scare off more people than starting with a fair price (also for you as a farmer) and keeping it fair.
- go fully hand tools on a very small scale (and no winter growing) or scale up enough to allow a tractor to be payed off. There is an in between zone where you can't afford a tractor but also can't get the work done without loads of free labor.

I haven't checked on your location, but when I'm talking 'winter', we are comparable to US zone 7 or 8 I think? Belgium, 52°N, but with a sea climate still at work. Winters are dark, with some frosts, but only a few days that it doesn't go abouf freezing.