Hydroponic Greenhouse Build From Start to Finish
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2024
- We share the family construction project of building the hydroponic greenhouse from the ground up. Hear from all of us about the whole process, and Doug gives some tips we learned along the way and things that worked for us. We did almost all of this project ourselves, including the head house production/processing building.
It started in summer 2013 with Doug breaking ground for the head house. Once we got that started, we moved on to setting the posts for the greenhouse, getting the cement aisles in, and securing the reservoir tank in the ground. Doug made an awesome invention for getting the NFT support posts in and another one for getting the plastic covering over the greenhouse easily. We came across a few hurdles, but with Doug and Katy's construction background, we were able to figure it all out. After a year and half, in January 2015, Katy seeded her first crop. It was very exciting!
Here is the greenhouse heating and cooling video I said I would link.
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We hope you enjoy seeing the build story, and please put any questions in the comments. I will try to get to as many as I can. Thanks for watching!
-Devon
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Unimaginable scale of this project done all by one small family. Hats off to Dad and his supporting family
It's truly amazing what a family can achieve together! Thank you for watching
Genuine people are still on the internet! Love the family values!
Thank you this is so kind! We really enjoy helping each other out.
Love this..👍👍👍
Absolutely amazing guys , loved it.
Awesome 👍🏻
Wow I love it.
Great stuffs !!!
Great video
You guys are very awesome! Well done.. keep up the great work!
great content, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the video 👍🏻
Fantastic
Bravo, awesome work, and wonderful family. 👍
Great job❤
Nice job
thats as good as it gets enjoy
Thank you, you are doing a job
Dad is a smart guy. Very cool.
Your family very good and hard working
My God what a amazing achievement,so much skill and knowledge has gone into this,but it looked like great fun,i can only imagine how you all felt when you had finished this,great pleasure to watch
Havent even finished this vid I'm pumped now thank you guys, tooooo cool
Awesome! Hope you liked it and thank you!
great job!!!
Thank you! This took me a lot of time, but I've been excited to make this video.
Very Informative Devon, cheers!!
Thanks Edgar!
A really great video. You guys did a wonderful job putting the greenhouse together. Your videos are getting better and better. Thanks.
Thank you so much, Don, and I really appreciate hearing that. I enjoy shooting and editing the videos, and comments like this give me encouragement. Hope you have a nice week! - Devon
the smile on the face say s it all wish all of the very best
Really inspired me a lot! 😁
That is great! We have a lot of fun with the greenhouse.
Great Video. Great Family Effort
Thank you! We enjoy working together.
A joy to watch, so much passion.
Thank you that is very nice 💚
Great video. Can see all the hard work your family put into it
I appreciate that!
Teamwork makes the dreamwork! Nice work you guys!!
Thanks! It was lots of work, but we always made it fun.
That in ground tank is definitely over-engineered. In the best way. Great job!
Such a great video.
I really enjoyed.
Well done!!
👍👍👍
That is awesome! Thank you so much 💚
这是一件伟大的工程，一家人齐心协力共同建造，真的太幸福了
Hi I'm from Sydney Australia, you all have done well, a lot of over kill but I hope you all do well with your new venture,
Bless You all
*re-opening this video for inspiration, because next month I will be making a small greenhouse with galvanized pipe material. thank you for sharing ma'am.*
Wow that’s a big project to take on! I love how the whole family got involved and it all came together. You all are a great family and I love seeing the “ behind the scenes” of farming.✌️
I am watching your videos from Tunisia ( north africa) and i am a big fun of your work and your family achievements!! wish you all the best!! you look so cool and inspiring!! i just started my business plan to do a hydroponic project and happy to see people like you sharing experiences and tips! Thank you thank you and thanks agaiiiin. Send much love and best wishes from north Africa. Hopefully i can do something as good as your positive vibes
This is just fantastic to see greenhouses being built. Need more like it. Family run.
Thank you very much. We really enjoy working together and helping out.
Super impressive!! WOW!
Thank you! Doug did a great job planning every thing, and we all enjoyed helping get the project done.
esta muy pero muy bueno.!! gracias por compartir..!!
Thanks for the video. Great to see the metamorphosis from bare ground to fully functioning greenhouse.
Of course! It was a fun project and neat going through the pictures again to make this video.
Lots of hard work indeed . Awesome job
Thank you very much! It was a lot of work, but looking back brings good memories.
That was as incredible as I thought it would be. Your Dad is a very skillful craftsman, Bobby too. Your family worked so hard and so well together, that's why it is very enjoyable to watch your videos. Thanks for sharing a little of your greenhouse lives...
Thank you! That is so nice and we really did have a lot of fun doing this project together. Brought back good memories looking at all of these pictures.
Wow. That was a lot of work, but fun when everyone gets involved. Your dad is the real star in my books. He is the jack of all trades. Without him, you would have had to outsource, and the cost would have been hefty. Well done "dad"!.
Wow fantastic greenhouse. Hard work and a lot of thought. I have a small 8 x 12 greenhouse I've been learning with and think about expanding. You guys really took it to the next level.
That is very neat, and I'd love to have a personal greenhouse some day at my house. It's very refreshing being in the greenhouse, especially in the winter. Thank you very much! - Devon
Very interesting...all the hard work paid off, the results are beautiful.
WOW, almost 10k subs!
Stay safe, think Spring!
Thank you, Joe and I can't believe it! I've been thinking spring for awhile, and it looks like it's close. Going to tap the maples soon. Have a great week. - Devon
Great Dad and supported Mom everybody works with passions. This is what I want to follow works with passions.,.....
thoughtful and thorough... great video! Congrats on beautiful build!
Thank you kindly!
Very nice! You dad is a pretty smart dude. Lots of planning in that project!
He is always thinking about things and never stops going. Thank you so much!
One of the best videos I’ve ever seen can I ask what was the final cost
Great video! Huge project. You folks are very hard workers. Congratulations on what you have built! Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks so much!
Great project and Great family. Best regards. 🙂
Thanks so much! We have fun together 💚
Absolutely you r guys really good thank you for the video I love it
Our pleasure!
After watching this all i can say is WOWWWW!!... What a tremendous amount of work...your folks rock!!
Thank you!!! It was a big project, but was a lot of fun and we all have good memories from that time.
Making Memories is what lifes about and learning all we can.. it looks like you have that all covered..
amazing works dad
Thank you kindly
Great project. God bless you. You are an example family.
Thank you 💚 we like to help each other and work together. God bless. -Devon
Great work
Thank you! Cheers!
I have been following you guys! You're doing an impressive work. I really enjoy your videos and showing the practicality and possibilities of hydroponic systems especially the NFT and Dutch bucket (which I am doing my PhD project on).
Thank you very much! That is wonderful and good luck on your PhD project. I'm happy to see more and more people learning about hydroponics. It's such a good way to grow food in any environment as you know.
Your dad is quite the inventor & problem solver. I didn't realize it was so recent & that Bobby was so involved. Thx for putting this together & sharing it. ❤️
Dad is always either working on something or trying to figure something out. Bobby was a HUGE help and did a ton of work. He always jumped in to do the scary jobs, like on the roof. Hope you guys are warming up down there and have a nice week!
Great video of the build. This is exactly what I am looking to do with my business. Wish ya'll were closer so I could pick your brains on the systems. Thanks for these vid's ya'll rock.
Your welcome if you need any help please just reach out!!
Thanks for sharing this big project
My pleasure
Thats a sweet growing set up
Thank you very much! It is a lot of fun.
Good job 👌
Thank you
I’m new to the channel. I love it! Born and raised in Washington Court House Ohio. I knew I like the channel when I saw the Wright state t shirt. I just harvested my first Kratky method lettuce. The future is bright!! Keep the content coming, please!!
Great! Thank you and I've been through there before. Lived by Dayton for awhile as you could have guessed. That's awesome, and I've heard and seen a lot of good things about the Kratky method. I want to try it someday just for myself. Hope you have a great rest of the weekend! - Devon
Great job guys. I just ran across your video and watched the entire thing. I'll soon be putting up a similar size greenhouse in Ecuador on a private ranch. The owner wants to see it work and then has promised to fund a humanitarian project in a number of large cities (Bogota, Guayaquil, Medellin, Lima, San Jose, etc.) The plan is to sell the produce to grocery stores and restaurants with take 100% of the profits and give it to people in need. I will admit that I know enough to be 'dangerous' and would be interested in talking to you and making a trip to see your operation in person to make sure I can recreate something similar. Thanks, Dennis
Bradwood Farms has had HomeGrown Passion from the beginning and certainly maintains that passion. This is certainly more than a business, you can see smell & taste it in the produce. Thank you for sharing the hard work & clean methods used to put it all together! Sticktuitiveness ! Wishing you decades & decades of continuing success your grandsons children will enjoy !
Thank you so much Jane for the nice comments....we do love it...see you soon!!
nice!
Wow, that's a nice set up! I'm planning on building a large greenhouse on my property in northwest WA. I've been watching a lot of videos on the subject and was thinking of doing the geothermal system to capture the 55 degrees of ground heat to keep the heating bills down. I'm probably going to do raised beds but your system of only using water is very interesting. What would be the best design of greenhouse I could build? I'm a carpenter and would like to do as much as I can like your family did.
Thanks for the video, enjoyed it. I was wondering what was the approximate cost of building all of the units.
Uauuuuu
This is amaizing job.
I do instaallation also in my contra and I know how fantastic is this work.
Thank you very so much for sharing this fantastic and all inspiring project. You family team are borne with construction talents. The greenhouse is not only very well designed but also built with absolutely high commercial standards. Truly impressive!
This is very nice! Thank you and we love working together. 💚
@@HomegrownPassion Thank you, Devon, for your whole family being so generous to share all these very well designed and executed farming project. There are so many things can be learnt for me. Thank you very much again.
Smashing video devon so wish a wasn't so far away id have loved to have met the family and especially dad he so reminded me of mine as he either knows everything or has a solution id love to know where he got all his knowledge from take care love to the family and hope your weather improves very soon paul x
Thank you very much, Paul! I would love to show you around the greenhouse. Maybe someday. My Dad is always working on something and likes to teach himself. If he can't figure something out, he researches until he finds a solution. Weather is starting to warm up a bit finally. We are planning on tapping the maple trees soon. Hope you have a nice week! - Devon
@@HomegrownPassion thankyou devon you dad is definitely a double of mine and a little of me .maple living here i know nothing about so will be very interesting. I did see some maple bacon in our supermarket so decided try it ..thought it was quite a strong flavour so like honey but not honey if you get me and sweet it was nice but couldn't eat alot of it .looking forward to the next video devon glad the weather is getting better love to the family paul x
Hi teacher! Great job 🖒
Love from Pakistan.
Hi and thank you! Hope you are doing well and that you have a nice week 💚
Wow great job. I read a book once called the Broken Heart Buffalo Farm where the owner said that being a farmer means that you will have know all the trades otherwise it would be too expensive to run the farm. This video sure showed the number of trades that Doug knew. He had to work concrete, sheet metal, capentry, electrican and plumbing. He sure save more than a pretty penny for this job but needed a lot skills. Respect.
wow! this is awesome....new subscriber here..looking forward to more videos...i am in southern ohio and am building a small greenhouse...also have a permaculture food forest...
Thank you so much, Tim! How's the snow down there? I'm ready for it to melt and for spring to come. I hope you have lots of fun with your greenhouse. I hope to have my own small greenhouse for personal use someday.
Thanks for sharing. Good to see the heart warming professional execution. I'm a retired architect and 've been building a hydro-organic farm here in Thailand.. still having lots of works to be done. Will share some day. ขอบคุณครับ
Of course and that would be wonderful. We'd love to see it. It is such a neat way to bring fresh produce to local people. Thank you. -Devon
🙋🏻♂️Devon!!! Wow quite a project to undertake... You’re father is very knowledgeable about construction!!!!! And you look absolutely gorgeous this evening 🥰🥰!!!! Have a good night and thanks for the video...
Sure thing! Thank you so much and I hope you have a lovely night too 💚
I am pandu, from Indonesia.
I love your action , i like your voice my friends,
wow, nice
Thank you so much 🥬
a really inspiring video i hope you all to suceed in your efforts and achieve huge profit from your work
great video and looking forward to watch your progress
all the best TC
Thank you very much and we all apreciate that! I'm looking forward to making more videos and showing what we do every season.
That was awesome to watch! Thanks. If I may ask what was the approx cost?
Good i like😍
I would build literally anything with your husband. Man after my own heart. It's expensive to have someone else do it? Well then we'll just have to learn how to do it ourselves. Love it. I wonder if he's got any ideas on how to go about building a mobile microgreen farm. ^^
I bet he could come up with an idea for you... We are going to start showing more of his builds and projects in the videos. Right now he is building me a garage for my delivery van and then he has wants to build a shed for his sawmill. Come help him...lol
Loved the video thanks for taking the time to edit and put it all together 🥰 Love the growth in your nft behind you. Mine is still growing and now I’m checking daily for aphids as the bok choy and the kohlrabi have had some in them so I’m trying to stay on top of it daily
Thank you! It was fun going through all of the construction pictures again. The stuff in my NFT is just about ready to harvest. Aphids love bok choy. I know Katy has had issues with them in her bok choy.
@@HomegrownPassion that’s awesome I can’t wait to have an entire greenhouse of hydroponics even if it’s a small one. I’m just as excited to soon expand the hydroponics in my office room. I’m going to overhaul the office and make it seed starting for both indoor and outdoor as well as add my systems indoors. My three Mexican midget dwarf tomato plants are doing phenomenal as well as the basil with them. I’m so excited
@@denesemaxie7930 Having the greenhouse will be very nice. Something about that natural sunlight can’t be beaten. Very cool you are growing indoors though. How awesome is it that we can grow food in our houses! I need to check out dwarf tomatoes. Do the plants stay pretty small?
@@HomegrownPassion agreed natural light is the best. And yes the dwarf midget tomatoes stay about the 6-10 inches in height and still produce well from what I read and studied on them. And so fare they are growing very well. I finally put a popsicle stick beside two of the three to give more support as they are now 5&6 inches tall now and the stalks are getting thicker and putting more leaves on them. They are about 58 days old so far and doing amazing.I have the three Mexican dwarf midget tomatoes plus one basil plant in one five gallon bucket and they and doing very well
@@denesemaxie7930 That’s really cool. I’d love to have some tomatoes inside, especially when we don’t have any going in the greenhouse. I’m definitely going to look into that. Having basil with tomatoes is cool too. I want to try growing some in the little NFT system soon.
Wow, blown away, I am so impressed by the work quality and the family, oops, teamwork! Where were the kids? Didn't they help? The baby is cute and cooperative!
Thank you so much! That is very kind and we all enjoy working together. The kids weren't born yet when we started building in summer 2013. The baby at the end is my oldest. He was born right when Katy started her first crop in January 2015.
your dad is the man
Closing in on 10,000 subs!
Yep I can't believe it! Thanks for being a nice one of them and chatting with me in the comments 💚
@@HomegrownPassion My pleasure! I'm learning a lot from you videos, and I am seriously considering starting a project like yours. I live next door in Indiana :)
We are neighbors 😁 It does take time doing all of the daily and weekly jobs in the greenhouse, but it is very rewarding and a great work environment.
It's really interesting following you channel. I'm very interested with hydroponics planting lettuce ❤
Ok, thank you
Awesome 👍 Lady 🙂 famer
I'm from sri lanka . this is great job. well done
thank you and thanks for supporting our channel
@@HomegrownPassion
you are welcome
So interesting and amazing
Thank you! It was a big project but we made it fun.
@@HomegrownPassion What is he gas well you referred to?
@@michaelpye5972 We are lucky to have an oil and gas well on the property that we use to heat the greenhouse.
@@HomegrownPassion wow,, thats incredible. I don't think we would be allowed to use it privately here. Have you ever thought of making Black Garlic?
@@michaelpye5972 I don’t think I’ve heard of black garlic. What is it like? We have a couple different kinds of garlic in the ground right now.
good informaton for us in Indonesia. thanks from Pak Surya in Jatiasih Bekasi. West Java. Indonesia
Wow thank you so much!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING , ive been dreaming to have my own greenhouse always in myimagination when i saw this videos i wonder if i can or cant to make it real, but atleast ive seen it on your videos. sure my dream is really big compare to my bank account hehehe.. ive keep positive till that day come
Start small and just do it. So many DIY systems you can use. Check out Fenster Farms videos. He is killing it with his systems and builds. czcams.com/users/cfenster
Can you ball park the cost? I am sure it was expensive but a top notch setup.
Mantap good
loved it, thanx for the efforts. fow many 3 ft exhaust fans will be required for 30ft x 20ft green house?
I have no idea. The greenhouse manufacture should be able to suggest..
It's very nice and your Dad did a very very great job . Congratulation guys your dream become true.
Yes thank you so much. He is good at visualizing things and putting them together. I will pass this comment on to them. They will appreciate it!
@@HomegrownPassion By the way I live in Egypt And I have a dream to make my own farm too. you all did good.
@@nassifeskander7317 I hope you get to do that soon. Is there an interest in hydroponics in Egypt? More people in the US are starting to become familiar with it and want to try hydroponic produce.
@@HomegrownPassion Yes we are but foods come from hydroponic farm expensive than land food and there is good future waiting for this kind of food also we interest in Aquaponic and sand ponic. God bless you.
@@nassifeskander7317 Hydroponic food can be a bit more expensive here depending on the season, but there is a growing demand for fresh vegetables, even in the winter. We are happy we can use hydroponics to grow all year. God bless you and I hope you have a great day.
You did a Great work there. Why you did not think of vertical farming for microgreens and strawberry?
Thank you very much! For our situation and lighting, these systems work best for us. We have strawberries in our other high tunnel greenhouse. I will show them soon this spring.
the long a waited vid is finally here , thank you so much , i have one question ,what is the benefits of a double layer of poly vs one layer ?
Of course! The double layer is for insulation. We have inflation fans for both the sides and roof, and it keeps an air pocket between the layers.
@@HomegrownPassion Who is the manufacturer/supplier for the greenhouse framing and the double ply poly sheets. I like the double sheet idea. Thank you for educating and entertaining us. You are a pleasant presenter who do really quality video production work.
I'm making my own little greenhouse.
That is awesome! What are you planning to grow?
@@HomegrownPassion I'm planning to grow lettuces. I'm waiting for my tray order so I can start germinating. You guys have an awesome farm and I love it. How I wish we have those kind of PVC in our place. I will use kratky method for now.