Julia Carl

Right now I'm dehydrating them. I'm growing garlic for my market garden to sell and as of now I have about 2,000. That's quite a bit of scapes. I have done the pesto which is deliscious! But with so many I decided to cut them, put them in the food processor to chop them into small bits and throw them into the dehydrator for later use. Thinking about powdering some of them too.

Wow! Great set up! I'm definitely interested in getting some of the carmine goumi. I'll show the list to my hubby and see if there are others he might want. How do we go about purchasing these from you?

Although they are not organic, I have gotten 100% wool blankets from Harbor Freight. At that time they were selling for about $12 and some change. At least it would help in short term until you were able to spend more for the organic. Also, has anyone looked into using kombucha scoby "leather" as an added layer of protection for windows? Not sure how well that would hold up due to the moisture, but hey.. Just a thought.

Peter, the main reason why we aren't renting a crane is because here they require us to be bonded. We do have several columns to put up but  are a bit shorter. I figured if I asked about the largest one, the rest would just follow suit. Being that we both work plus farm our time is limited so it would be good if we could have something onsite so we can work on it when we have some spare time. Hiring a crew is definitely out of our budget.

Roberto, thank you for the detailed explanation on how to build it. Very much appreciated.

Wow Travis great find! Now I may have to rethink the gin pole. Or perhaps a combination....

Thank you Roberto! We looked into the gin poles you suggested and think the tri pod with the gin pole may be the way to go. Since we have many more columns to install, maybe we will try to construct something easier to move around.

Hi everyone! My husband and I will be building an earth sheltered umbrella house here in western NY. We will be building it ourselves and are looking for ideas on how to lift and set into place our center column that will be approx 25' tall heavy timber with out having to hire someone with a crane. We've looked into block and tackle with a tripod of poles (as was used in the Coral Castle) and also the polyspaston with treadwheel as was used in midieval times. Do you have any suggestions?