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The Forest Garden
Greenhouse
Talk & Booksigning
with
Jerome Osentowski
of Central Rocky Mountains Permaculture Institute (CRMPI)
Sunday, March 6, 2016
6:30pm - 8:30pm, Donation $5
Ayni Gallery
“ This book will fundamentally change the
conversation about growing food indoors.”
J oin author Jerome Osentowski as
he shares his newly published book "The Forest Garden Greenhouse-How
to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis
", in an evening
talk on Sunday, March 6, describing how to bring a forest
garden indoors.
For roughly 200 years, greenhouses have been a mainstay of the market
garden and nursery trades. But the possibilities of these indoor gardens
to transform our homes and our lives remain largely unrealized. In this
groundbreaking book, Jerome Osentowski, one of North America’s most
accomplished permaculture designers, shows how to bring a forest garden
indoors, even on unlikely terrain and in cold climates, using
near-net-zero technology.
The Forest Garden Greenhouse advocates a unique approach to indoor
agriculture using permaculture design concepts that take season extension
into new and important territory, whether you’re growing food or
medicinals for your family or commercially.
Osentowski, director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture
Institute (CRMPI), farms at 7200 feet on a steep, rocky hillside in
Colorado. At this mountaintop site, Osentowski (along with architect and
design partner Michael Thompson) has been designing and building
revolutionary greenhouses that utilize passive and active solar heat
storage technologies via what they call the “climate battery.” This
cutting-edge, subterranean air-circulation system pushes hot, moist,
ambient air from the greenhouse during the day through a network of
buried perforated tubes, storing heat and humidity in the soil, to be
retrieved again during cold nights. This remarkable technology creates
tropical and Mediterranean climates at high altitudes and in cold
climates (and everywhere else).
In addition to learning how to create their own climate battery, readers
will receive in-depth information about: the fundamentals of design and
construction of greenhouses of various sizes; capturing energy and
ventilation; bed layout and soil building techniques; the secrets of
successful companion planting; the use of microclimates within and around
the greenhouse, and more.
Whether your goal is simply to extend the growing season by a few weeks
or to build a year-round tropical greenhouse, this book’s detailed
drawings, photos, and profiles of successful greenhouse projects on all
scales will be an invaluable resource.
Jerome Osentowski is a forager and permaculturist with roots in rural
Nebraska. The director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture
Institute and a permaculture designer for thirty years, he has built five
greenhouses for himself and scores of others for private clients and
public schools. He makes his living from an intensively-cultivated one
acre of indoor and outdoor forest garden and plant nursery, which he uses
as a backdrop for permaculture and greenhouse design courses. Among his
accomplishments is hosting the longest-running Permaculture Design Course
in the world. He currently lives in a passive solar home he built at 7200
feet above Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley.
The evening talk takes place on Monday, March 6 , 6:30pm-8:30pm,
Donation $5, at the Ayni
Gallery (across from the Amtrak Station) 216 State St, Santa Barbara
CA, 93101, no reservations required. For more
Info, (805)962-2571,
margie@sbpermaculture.org,
www.sbpermaculture.org, Books Will be for sale by Author
Santa Barbara event Facebook page
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Additional Resources
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture
http://crmpi.org
The Forest Garden Greenhouse How to Design and Manage an Indoor
Permaculture Oasis By Jerome Osentowski
http://www.chelseagreen.com/the-forest-garden-greenhouse
Episode 1606: The Forest Garden Greenhouse Interview with Jerome
Osentowski, founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
http://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2016/episode-1606/
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org
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