Christmas Trees from Connecticut!
- New Card Specials: Pumpkin Squares, Crackers & Cheese & Oatmeal October 15, 2021
“What is Morning Glory Farm Building on the West Tisbury Road?”
If you’ve driven past the farmstand over the past few weeks, you have probably noticed the new building going up between the farmstand and the rosemary patch. Our new vegetable washing (VW for short) barn is a state-of-the-art… Read More
Category: Blog Tags: barn, construction, Edgartown, energy, farm, farming, farmstand, food safety, fresh, lean engineering, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, MDAR, produce
New Barn, Bunk House & Field Pump Update
We’re still in the permitting process for our new vegetable barn. Once all the ink is dry, the building will start to go up next to the farmstand on West Tisbury Road.
Category: Blog, Farm Addition Tags: barn, conservation, construction, energy, farm, fresh, housing, irrigation, lean engineering, Martha's Vineyard, produce, vegetables
New Vegetable Barn Coming in 2018
May 1, 2018: Please see New Barn Update for the latest on this project We’re not 100% sure yet exactly where on the farm it will be located, but a new building is going up next spring that… Read More
Category: Blog, Farm Addition, Tractors & Equipment Tags: art, barn, conservation, construction, Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MDAR, vegetables
Barn Boards onto the Barn
The workmen have been feverishly working away. On Thursday I counted 17 men and women pounding away at: installing the post and beam porch, nailing up barnboard roofers, staining the white cedar trim, laying out a fire suppression… Read More
Category: Blog, Farm Addition Tags: Athearn, barn, construction, farmstand
Post and Beam going up!
Hardwick Post and Beam arrived this week and got right to work. All the oak framing was pre-cut in their mill in Hardwick MA and it should go together like a puzzle from here. With the use of… Read More
Category: Blog, Farm Addition Tags: barn, construction, farmstand, post and beam
Work Continues at Morning Glory
Deca’s carpenters and masons continue to ready the building to receive the post and beam frame we expect soon. The ‘Deck’ as they call it, the sub floor of the final store. In front is the concrete floor… Read More
Category: Bakery, Blog, Farm Addition Tags: construction, farm, vegetables
The Greenhouse gets its skin
We finally received the skin for the greenhouse we have been building and are ready to put it up. It comes as 2- 36′ x 100′ sheets and we lay them both over the house attach them at… Read More
Category: Blog, Crops and Growing, Farm Addition Tags: construction, farm, greenhouse, vegetables
Moving the greenhouse
Here is the greenhouse pre-move. We have already moved this house once to this location 1984. Onto what was then a herb garden, involved were Jim and Debbie Athearn and Cody Jephcote . Now it gets to move… Read More
Category: Blog, Farm Addition Tags: construction, greenhouse, Martha's Vineyard
Masons working feverishly
Over the weekend and early this week the masons have been working feverishly to complete the concrete forms so they can pour the concrete before the cold spell hits on Friday, let hope they can. Anthony Bartok and… Read More
Category: Blog, Farm Addition Tags: construction, farmstand
Farm addition, were going for it!
Our store as it has been for the last 31 years, this front part is the oldest piece. The 2/3 of the current store will be carried off for use as employee housing up by our blueberry field. The other… Read More
Category: Blog, Farm Addition Tags: barn, construction, farm, farmstand
New England Christmas Trees!
- New Card Specials: Pumpkin Squares, Crackers & Cheese & Oatmeal October 15, 2021
