Resources for Season Extension
October 24, 2005
Compiled by Debbie Roos
Chatham County Center
North Carolina Cooperative Extension
Books and Publications
Walking to Spring: Using High Tunnels to Grow Produce 52 Weeks a Year, by Paul and
Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm
to order, visit their website at www.aunaturelfarm.homestead.com or call them at 270749-4600
Four Season Harvest, by Eliot Coleman
The Winter-Harvest Manual Farming the Backside of the Calendar, by Eliot Coleman
The Hoophouse Handbook, by Lynn Byczynski
order from Growing for Market at 800-307-8949 or visit their website at
www.growingformarket.com
Extending the Season: Six Strategies for Improving Cash Flow Year-round on the Market
Farm, by Lynn Byczynski
order from Growing for Market at 800-307-8949 or visit their website at
www.growingformarket.com
Growing for Market, edited by Lynn Byczynski
order from Growing for Market at 800-307-8949 or visit their website at
www.growingformarket.com
Websites
Growing Small Farms Chatham County Center, NC Cooperative Extension
www.ces.ncsu.edu/chatham/ag/SustAg/index.html
Hightunnels.org - University Consortium from Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri
www.hightunnels.org
website includes a High Tunnel Listserv at www.hightunnels.org/news.htm
High Tunnel Project - Rutgers University
http://aesop.rutgers.edu/%7Ehorteng/
Shows step-by-step photos of high tunnel construction
Center for Plasticulture Penn State University
http://plasticulture.cas.psu.edu
Design and Construction of the Penn State High Tunnel
http://plasticulture.cas.psu.edu/Design_construction.pdf
Season Extenders - Virginia Tech University
www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-381/426-381.html
Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA)
www.attra.org
Suppliers
American Plant Products & Supplies
800-522-3376; Oklahoma City, OK
greenhouse frames, films and glazing, shade cloth, row covers, mulch film
A.M. Leonard, Inc.
800-543-8955; Piqua, OH
www.amleo.com
landscape fabric, plastic film, shade cloth
Atlas Greenhouse Systems
800-346-9902; Alapaha, GA
www.atlasgreenhouse.com
greenhouse/tunnel structures
Berry Hill Irrigation
800-345-3747; Buffalo Junction, VA
www.berryhilldrip.com
Coor Farm Supply
800-999-4573; Smithfield, NC
shade cloth, plastic mulch, reemay and other supplies
Dirt Works
800-769-3856; New Haven, VT
www.dirtworks.net
Bio-Film 100 biodegradable mulch
Fedco Seeds
207-873-7333; Waterville, ME
www.fedcoseeds.com
floating row covers, plastic film mulches
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Harmony Farm Supply & Nursery
707-823-9125; Sebastopol, CA
www.harmonyfarm.com
floating row covers, frost blankets, landscape fabric, cold frames, greenhouse poly
Haygrove Tunnels
Ralph Cramer
866-HAYGROVE: North Elizabethtown, PA
[email protected]www.haygrove.co.uk
Jaderloon
800-258-7171; Irmo, SC
www.jaderloon.com
complete line of structures and wide selection of accessories including film fastening
systems, inflation blowers, polycarbonate sheets, and poly patch
Johnny's Selected Seeds
800-854-2580; Winslow, ME
www.johnnyseeds.com
floating row covers, slitted row covers, black poly mulch, IRT-100 green polymulch,
landscape fabric, tacks and staples, cold frames, seeds for hoophouse/greenhouse
production and for hot weather lettuces
Ken-Bar
800-336-8882; Reading, MA
www.ken-bar.com/home.html
row covers, plastic mulch, Planters paper mulch, low tunnels
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply
916-272-4769; Grass Valley, CA
www.groworganic.com
Agribon and Tufbell floating row covers, slitted row covers, shade cloth, IRT mulch,
Planters Paper, black embossed polyethylene mulch film, repair tape, clips, hoops, WallO'-Water
Stuppy Greenhouse Manufacturing
800-733-5025; North Kansas City, MO
www.stuppy.com
variety of both coldframes and greenhouses