Yesterday and today, the first of six raised beds has been built. They will be lined at the bottom with wire mesh to keep out the burrowing rodentia. They are lined on the sides to keep the wood from leaching chemicals into our food. On top of the wire mesh are radiant flooring heating tubing which will heat the beds in the winter. The tubing will be filled with polypropylene glycol (PPG) that circulates into a heat exchange manifold associated with the biomass generator/boiler.
Here is the raised bed from our back door.
Here is the raised bed from slightly above.
You can see a closer shot of the interior here.
A really close up shot of the tubing and how it is tied down.
What it looks like if you were laying down inside (as if!)
