Description
Discover the ultimate solution for year-round gardening with The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse. This comprehensive guide empowers you to design and build solar greenhouses that capture and store solar energy, ensuring you can grow fresh, nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables even in the coldest months. Ideal for backyard enthusiasts and small-scale commercial growers, this book dives deep into the principles of solar greenhouse design, including optimal siting, glazing material selection, and effective heat loss control. With innovative construction methods and sustainable heating solutions—like utilizing thermal mass and innovative ground-to-air heat exchangers—you'll cultivate a thriving ecosystem while minimizing energy costs.
Explore exciting variations like attached solar greenhouses and earth-sheltered structures, along with the integration of hydroponics and aquaponics systems. Real-world case studies from North America provide additional inspiration and practical insights, guiding you through the unique challenges of year-round growing in various climates.
Written by experts Lindsey Schiller and Marc Plinke, this guide draws on years of experience in the greenhouse industry. Dive into the world of sustainable gardening and harness the power of the sun to grow your own food anytime, anywhere. Enjoy free shipping on this item, with an expected delivery time of up to 6 weeks. Please note, once your order is placed, cancellations are not permitted.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled..
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780865718241
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2016
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Description:
Fresh, local nutrient-dense fruits vegetables are hard to find in winter in cold climates. Growing warm-weather crops like tomatoes, bananas, avocados, and other perennials is nearly impossible using conventional structures. The solution for millions of backyard and small-scale commercial growers is self-heating solar greenhouses.
The Year-round Solar Greenhouse is the one-stop guide to designing and building greenhouses that harness and store energy from the sun to create naturally heated, lush growing environments even in the depths of winter, covering principles of solar greenhouse design and siting, glazing material properties and selection, controlling heat loss, ventilation, and construction methods. Additionally, an in-depth section covers sustainable ways of heating the greenhouse without fossil fuels, including using thermal mass and storing heat underground with a ground to air heat exchanger.
Variations include attached solar greenhouses, earth sheltered greenhouses, plus integrating hydroponics and aquaponics. More than a dozen case studies from across North America provide inspiration and demonstrate specific challenges and solutions for growing year-round in any climate.
Grow your own food, anytime, anywhere using the power of the sun!
Lindsey Schiller is a greenhouse designer and with co-author Marc Plinke, co-owner of Ceres Greenhouse Solutions. Lindsey has designed, toured and helped build hundreds of energy-efficient greenhouses spanning small residential structures to acre-size commercial facilities.
Marc Plinke is an inventor-innovator with a PhD in engineering wh
Explore exciting variations like attached solar greenhouses and earth-sheltered structures, along with the integration of hydroponics and aquaponics systems. Real-world case studies from North America provide additional inspiration and practical insights, guiding you through the unique challenges of year-round growing in various climates.
Written by experts Lindsey Schiller and Marc Plinke, this guide draws on years of experience in the greenhouse industry. Dive into the world of sustainable gardening and harness the power of the sun to grow your own food anytime, anywhere. Enjoy free shipping on this item, with an expected delivery time of up to 6 weeks. Please note, once your order is placed, cancellations are not permitted.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled..
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780865718241
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2016
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Description:
Fresh, local nutrient-dense fruits vegetables are hard to find in winter in cold climates. Growing warm-weather crops like tomatoes, bananas, avocados, and other perennials is nearly impossible using conventional structures. The solution for millions of backyard and small-scale commercial growers is self-heating solar greenhouses.
The Year-round Solar Greenhouse is the one-stop guide to designing and building greenhouses that harness and store energy from the sun to create naturally heated, lush growing environments even in the depths of winter, covering principles of solar greenhouse design and siting, glazing material properties and selection, controlling heat loss, ventilation, and construction methods. Additionally, an in-depth section covers sustainable ways of heating the greenhouse without fossil fuels, including using thermal mass and storing heat underground with a ground to air heat exchanger.
Variations include attached solar greenhouses, earth sheltered greenhouses, plus integrating hydroponics and aquaponics. More than a dozen case studies from across North America provide inspiration and demonstrate specific challenges and solutions for growing year-round in any climate.
Grow your own food, anytime, anywhere using the power of the sun!
Lindsey Schiller is a greenhouse designer and with co-author Marc Plinke, co-owner of Ceres Greenhouse Solutions. Lindsey has designed, toured and helped build hundreds of energy-efficient greenhouses spanning small residential structures to acre-size commercial facilities.
Marc Plinke is an inventor-innovator with a PhD in engineering wh