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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode we visit with Evan Perkins and Heidi Choate of Small Axe Farm (https://smallaxefarm.com/) to talk about how they use Cat Tunnels on their no-till, hillside farm.

2:14 How do you utilize Cat Tunnels?

3:58 Construction & Build

• Farmers Friend: https://farmersfriendllc.com/
• Side “Hooks”

5:25 Shoulder season practices

• Wind bracing
• End Walls

8:48 Usage on a hill

10:43 Cat tunnels vs. High tunnels

15:58 Heidi’s key takeaways

19:05 Rolling up the plastic during winter

23:50 The biggest tip: Build them up like a hoophouse

Website: https://smallaxefarm.com/

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smallaxefarmvermont/?hl=en

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