[Lapg] [Scpg] Greenhouse questions

[Julia Russell]

Hi Cory,

The Eco-Home Library contains a couple of precious old resources I'd be 
willing to share, but I'd need to have your word of honor that they'd be 
returned, as I suspect they're all out of print now. 
1. The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse: Design, Constructio and 
Operation by Bill Yanda and Rick Fisher, John Muir Publications, PO Box 
613, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, 1976 & 1980, ISBN # 0-912528-20-6
2. The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse: A Guide to Year-Round Food Production 
by Shane Smith with an Introduction by Bill Yanda, John Muir 
Publications, 1982, ISBN # 0-912528-08-7
3. How To Build and Use Greenhouses by T. Jeff Williams, Ortho Books, 
1978, ISBN # 0-917102-74-6

But why build greenhouses in southern California?  We can grow food and 
fruit here all year 'round anyway, without greenhouses.  What about 
building a rain cathchment system in the project in South Central LA, 
instead?
That would seem to me to be a much more climate appropriate 
environmetnal improvement project than a greenhouse.  Brad Lancaster's 
book, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome 
Rain into Your Life and Landscape, ISBN # 0-9772464-0-X, 2006, 
distributed by Chelsea Green Publishing Company, (800) 639-4099.  
Rainwater catchment is definitely my next project for Eco-Home. 

Good Luck!

Best,
Julia

Cory Brennan wrote:

> I am looking for info on cheap, self-sufficient greenhouses for a 
> variety of climatic conditions.  I am researching the gamut right 
> now.  What is possible, what is the state of the art (even if 
> expensive), what are the production differences, how do they stand up 
> against heavy weather, etc.  What greenhouse tech is available to heat 
> with free energy, what is the best material available and why, what 
> about portable or do it yourself assembly greenhouses?  We want to 
> grow anything and everything in there :-)  Anybody who has experience 
> with greenhouses, please contact me!    This is for a project in South 
> Central LA and on a Native American reservation.  The one in South 
> Central is going to have to deal with a lot less weather than the one 
> on the reservation.  
>
> I am familiar with Anna Edey and Solviva, which is very good stuff.  I 
> just want to find out what else is out there. 
>
> Cory Brennan
>
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