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- From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Driveway and parking areas
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:18:02 -0500
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 07:00:07PM +0300, Wiener, Benjamin L CPT
NG NG FORSCOM wrote:
I'm starting a new berry farm and I am wondering how othershandle parking for on farm market sales. I am starting from corn
stubble in a field with a field access on one end. I'll get a
permit for an additional road access from the main highway. Has
anyone used the reinforced grass products? They come in rolls and
you install them over turf or new seedings and the plastic mesh
reinforces the sod once established.
I haven't used them, or seen them in use that I've noticed; but we have an application for a winery special use permit here, and they're intending to use something like that for parking. According to their explanation, you lay down gravel, then lay down the plastic, fill it with topsoil, and seed it; the plastic takes the weight of the cars so the grass doesn't get torn up in wet weather. If I remember correctly, though, they said the product they intend to use isn't recommended for drive lanes, only for parking, as the extra traffic on drive lanes smashes the grass blades repeatedly against the plastic to the point that this kills the grass. I don't know whether this applies to all such products, though.
The proposed winery isn't built yet, so I can't tell you how it holds up, even in parking areas. Maybe the people selling the stuff can tell you some places where it's already in use, so you could go look?
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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Re: [Market-farming] NRCS EQIP Programs
, (continued)
- Re: [Market-farming] NRCS EQIP Programs, breck, 12/10/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] marking pens that don't fade, Maggie Palmer, 12/10/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] marking pens that don't fade, Wiediger, Alison, 12/10/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] marking pens that don't fade, Road's End Farm, 12/10/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] marking pens that don't fade, Beth Spaugh, 12/11/2009
- [Market-farming] Driveway and parking areas, Wiener, Benjamin L CPT NG NG FORSCOM, 12/11/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Driveway and parking areas, Willie McKemie, 12/11/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Driveway and parking areas, Wiener, Benjamin L CPT NG NG FORSCOM, 12/12/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Driveway and parking areas, Steve Michel, 12/13/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Driveway and parking areas, jay sleichter, 12/13/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Driveway and parking areas, Road's End Farm, 12/13/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Driveway and parking areas, Marcy, 12/12/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] marking pens that don't fade, Dave or Kathy Campbell, 12/11/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] marking pens that don't fade, Road's End Farm, 12/12/2009
- [Market-farming] marker stakes, Beth Spaugh, 12/12/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] marker stakes, Road's End Farm, 12/12/2009
- [Market-farming] Greenhouses and snow, Ken Bezilla, 12/19/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouses and snow, Beth Spaugh, 12/19/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouses and snow, MAsteveINE, 12/19/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] marking pens that don't fade, Sheila Payne, 12/12/2009
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