This winter, the Meredith Family will begin the process of creating our own sustainable space here at our home in Madison, TN.
We will be using the wonderful and easy to impliment, Square Foot Gardening technique popularized by Mel Bartholomew.
We will be building three to five, 3' x 4' SFG tables that we will setup in various places around the back side of the house. The tables will be designed to accomodate hoop covers and green house covers as well as capture any run off water that can then be recycled back into the planting table.
Some of the cool features that we hope to build into the tables:
- mesh hoop covers for bug, wind and animal protection
- greenhouse covers for early and late growing
- trellises that will act as both sun shade for our porch area
- drip irrigation system
- led lighting integrated into covers (for evening cultivation and harvesting)
- grow cams to document growth and condition over the season
- Integration of the Garduino system and the Properdurino system for keeping tabs on the health of the beds
photo credit - Zoey Farms
