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Onsite Training and DIY Kits

Theory and practice for newcomers to tunnel farming, and DIY tunnel kits with an installation manual so you can build your own.

Tray of young seedlings held in both hands

Onsite training for newcomers to tunnel farming covers theory and practice across the stages of the growing period.

Trainees learn to maintain basic water quality, operate and maintain irrigation systems, and carry out basic routine operations in a hydroponics setting. The training is for farmers and farm workers growing plants with hydroponics.

If you would rather build the tunnel yourself, DIY kits come with an installation manual to guide you.

What’s included

  • Theory and practical training on site
  • Planning: water, tunnel management and marketing
  • Preparing the inside of the tunnel, step by step
  • Irrigation operation and maintenance
  • DIY tunnel kits with an installation manual
Farmer crouching to inspect young plants in the soil

1. Getting started (planning)

The first module covers planning, before anything is built or planted.

  • 1.1 Water quality and quantity requirements for tunnel farming
  • 1.2 Management of tunnels
  • 1.3 Marketing of products
Grower checking seedling trays laid out on tables inside a tunnel

2. Tunnel maintenance

2.1 Preparing the inside of the tunnel, done hands-on:

  • 2.1.1 Laying floor plastic
  • 2.1.2 Packing planting bags
  • 2.1.3 Spacing dripper pipe
  • 2.1.4 Testing the dripper system
Two standard tunnels covered in white plastic on a grassy slope

DIY tunnel kits

Greenhouse tunnels are also supplied as easy-to-assemble DIY kits. Each kit comes with an installation manual to guide you through your own installation.

Building it yourself saves money, and you learn the technical side of how the greenhouse is constructed.

  • Structure in A-grade mild steel
  • Galvanising available as an option
  • Designed for good ventilation and climate control
  • Covered in 200 micron plastic
  • UV stabilisers with improved chemical resistance
  • Light diffusion for a more even spread of light during the day
  • Anti-fog additives that prevent dripping onto plants and loss of light transmission
Plants growing in black bags along drip lines inside a tunnel
Growers tending trellised plants inside a timber-framed tunnel
Raised steel benches inside a tunnel, ready for seedling trays
Rows of leafy greens, lettuce and chard growing inside a tunnel

Tell us what you want to grow. We will size the tunnel around it.