Hoop House Garden and Winter Animal Shelter

raise good food okay so we're over here at one of their hoop houses here on Polyface this is compost and sawdust and wood all sorts of fun stuff there we've got laying boxes that are built up on stilts so the laying hens will go into this hoop house in the wintertime when it's too cold for them to be out on pasture and the heat from the composting material will keep them warm enough and keep them laying all year round pretty awesome this one looks like one that they're actually growing a garden in and I guess wants the garden kind of Peters out they'll let it grow up rad we're gonna take you guys around and show you some of the stuff that you don't see in the flowers and butterflies channel about Polyface farm so there's a big old stack of wood like extra wood scrap wood any kind of wood no wood goes to waste because they're always building stuff and repairing fence posts and stuff like that there's a guy in here building a cart to put feed on right here our spare fence post and these guys mill all their own wood and we'll go up there and see the sawmill here in just a minute we're walking down here to the barn where the bigger raider is okay folks so we're in a hay barn this thing is probably 35 feet high there are feed troughs right here so when they get ready to pull hay off feed falls into the feed troughs which is really cool this area will be where they put the cows in the winter time and this place will stack up with manure all the way up to here as its stacking up with manure they throw corn out on the manure later on