Construction is Underway - Help a Farm Update

Construction is underway on our Help a Farm to Help a Family Project. Because of your support at the Benefit Dinner and your sponsorship of square feet of the house we have been able to move forward on building the tiny home for our farm manager, Lael, and her family. Building began the 8th of this month with the farm crew and with a little help from Bill Mentgen, Lynn’s Brother. Bill designed the tiny home and helped that first week to get a majority of the framing finished.

He took progress shots of the building process. They truly did so much in one week of building!

With the construction crew came some extra help in the gardens. Allison, Todd’s daughter, helped in the greenhouses all week. It was so enjoyable to share the farm with the younger generation. The beet harvest was one of the many things she assisted with on the farm.

We are beginning on the third week of building and the house has gone up fast. Tom and Ben have been working on the new construction everyday as well as monitoring harvest. They have been the superheroes of this project and cannot be thanked enough!

So much has changed on the house in the past two weeks. This is the north facing side of the house with a view of mt. Lamborn.

The view from the living room frames the mountain beautifully! The space will have lots of windows that will connect Lael and her family to the outdoors at all times.

The loft area for the kids has peaceful views of the valley. One of the changes as the building came into being at the beginning of this month was making the loft ceilings higher so that the rooms had the flexibility for future growth of the children.

The next step in the building process will be placing the roof. We hope that the rain holds off long enough so that we can get this important work finished.

Would you like to stay involved with the project? We have a list of materials for furnishing the house that we are still in need of. You can look over the list below and compare it with what is laying around in your garage. Bookcases, paint and laminate or hardwood floor remnants would be greatly appreciated to make this into a home. If you aren’t local and can’t donate spare items you can help by sponsoring a square foot. This will enable us to purchase the materials to furnish this into an energy efficient home for our incredible farm manager.

This project would never have happened without your support. Thank you for supporting the future of the Living Farm!

Lynn

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(P.P.S In case you missed the exciting news from last week you might want to give the blog post Celebrating 100 Leafy Greens Course Students a read!)

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