I've been talking about building a dedicated growing space for months now. Testing methods in my kitchen. Fruiting mushrooms in tubs. Running hydroponic setups wherever I could fit them. Learning what works, what doesn't, and what I'd need if I was going to do this for real.
Well, "for real" just pulled into the driveway on a flatbed trailer with an OVERSIZE LOAD banner on the front.
16 by 32 feet of potential
The shed is a 16'x32' prefab building — gray siding, dark metal roof, windows on the sides, a walk-in door, and a full-size roll-up garage door on the front end. It showed up fully built on a delivery trailer. One of those huge rigs that makes you wonder how they're going to get it off without taking out your mailbox.
Turns out there's a machine for that. A Cardinal mule — basically a giant motorized dolly — rolled right up under the building and walked it off the trailer, across the yard, and onto the pad. Watching a 16x32 building get picked up and moved like a piece of furniture is something else. The whole process took maybe an hour.
It's sitting on concrete blocks now, level, square, and ready to go.
What I'm looking at inside
Right now the interior is wide open. Exposed stud walls, open rafters, plywood floor. Just a big blank canvas.
That's the point.
This space is going to become a climate-controlled growing facility — mushroom fruiting rooms, hydroponic rack systems for microgreens and leafy greens, herb growing stations, and a dedicated area for the worm farm. Every inch of it planned around what I've already tested and know works.
I've already got grow tents and lights ready to go.
The buildout starts now.
Why this matters
A shed doesn't sound glamorous. I get that. But this is the piece that turns Shadowmere Farm from a guy growing food in his house into a real operation that can serve the local community consistently.
Temperature control. Humidity control. Dedicated mushroom rooms with proper fresh air exchange. Enough rack space to run weekly microgreen harvests. Room for worm bins that can actually produce castings at a useful scale.
None of that was possible without a facility. Now I have one.
What's next
Setting up the interior rooms. Running electrical. Setting up climate control. Building out the mushroom fruiting chambers first — those are the most environment-sensitive and the most exciting.
I'll be documenting the whole buildout here. Every wall, every system, every problem I run into. Because that's the deal — I'm not going to show you the finished product and pretend it was easy. You get to see all of it.
If you're following along, thank you. If you're just finding this, welcome — you picked a good time to show up.
More soon.
William
Shadowmere Farm
