 Hi, my name is Cherie Flowers with Paige and Flowers and we're here in the urban jungle, St. Paul, Minnesota in the Hamlin Midway neighborhood on a lot that's a double lot and this is our urban farm. We've been growing for in the in the urban landscape for about 12 years on different sites around the city and right here this is our home and also our part of our farm and this farm site we happen to have a high tunnel. Our high tunnel is 30 by 32. The advantages of having a high tunnel would be that you can grow things for a longer period of time throughout the season so starting earlier in the spring and then going later into the fall. In the high tunnel we usually grow things that like really warm season temperatures so we've grown tomatoes, peppers, eggplant. We've also grown and we have in there now to some sweet potatoes that like a longer season and like hotter temperatures and then right now we're experimenting with ginger and turmeric that are hot season types of crops and longer season crops as well partly because they're high value crops and then other things that we're doing in the high tunnel are aquaponics and hydroponics and succession planting is another piece of it so in the spring we might start with lettuce or greens of some sort that like the cool season weather and then move into the hot season crops in the middle of the year and then go into another cool variety in the fall. One of the things about a high tunnel is that of course because it's covered with plastic you don't end up with rainwater getting inside unless you work really hard at it and we found out about the serigrant and we were fortunate enough to get a serigrant to do water capture off of the high tunnel and the high tunnel will it will capture about a total of 600 gallons of water in a one inch rainfall and so we felt like that was worth working toward so what we put together is gutters on both sides of the high tunnel that collect the water and then the water goes into rain barrels at the west side of the high tunnel and from there we have a pump and the pump is powered either from our house from the electricity from our house or by a solar collector and then from there the water is pumped through into a irrigation system and in the irrigation system then that runs directly to the roots of the plants and that's important in a high tunnel because if you have overhead watering sometimes the leaves get wet and they can get disease so so this whole system works really well together and it's a way for us to take advantage of all of the water that sheets off of the high tunnel and it also helps us to keep from from flooding the high tunnel because originally when all the water would come off the high tunnel some of it would get inside and then it would tend to flood the edges of it and make it too wet