The Greenhouse
Gaining access to the New Urban Landscape for the next five year's has given AV the opportunity to build our first green house. This Greenhouse gives us the chance to extend the growing season for two months. Two more months of growing means we can have more crops and a larger variety of plants. Donated to us by Green Thumb, our Greenhouse is 16 feet wide and 60 feet long. Compared to our old hoop house's, built   from   grocery  store awnings and covered with plastic, it's huge. Knowing that the green house was going to be a rather large project, we were eager to start. Supported by a few project partners like John Amoroso, from Cornell Cooperative Extension and Tim, a staff member from Green Thumb who loaned us his generator, we jumped right in!

Day 1 We gathered everyone and planned out how we would get the job done. The  youth  participants and  volunteers had different  tasks  like  jack hammering, cleaning the holes, mixing  cement, and cementing the post into the holes.

-Participants who mixed cement with water had to also clean out the wheel barrels before the cement dried up in it.
-Whoever had the jackhammers had to make holes in the concrete then clean out the hole so the post could be cemented into it.
-Those setting up the post were slathering down the cement around the post.

We had many things that had to get done, but we did finish the project for the day. It was a great day. We met new people that had volunteered that day. At the end of the day we all signed our names into the wet cement and took a group photo, so we could remember that fun day and the beginning of the Greenhouse.

The mixing of the cement by Tevon McNair