With a revolutionary new "Climate Battery" design for near-net-zero
heating and cooling By the turn of the nineteenth century,
thousands of acres of glass houses surrounded large American
cities, becoming a commonplace symbol of the market garden and
nursery trades. But the possibilities of the indoor garden 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, presents a wholly new
approach to a very old horticultural subject. In The Forest Garden
Greenhouse, he shows how bringing the forest garden indoors is not
only possible, but doable on unlikely terrain and in cold climates,
using near-net-zero technology. Different from other books on
greenhouse design and management, this book advocates for an indoor
agriculture using permaculture design concepts-integration,
multi-functions, perennials, and polycultures-that take season
extension into new and important territory. Osentowski, director
and founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
(CRMPI), farms at 7,200 feet on a steep, rocky hillside in
Colorado, incorporating deep, holistic permaculture design with
practical common sense. It is at this site, high on a mountaintop,
where Osentowski (along with architect and design partner Michael
Thompson) has been designing and building revolutionary greenhouses
that utilize passive and active solar technology via what they call
the "climate battery"-a subterranean air-circulation system that
takes the hot, moist, ambient air from the greenhouse during the
day, stores it in the soil, and discharges it at night-that can
offer tropical and Mediterranean climates at similarly high
altitudes and in cold climates (and everywhere else). Osentowski's
greenhouse designs, which can range from the backyard homesteader
to commercial greenhouses, are completely ecological and use a
simple design that traps hot and cold air and regulates it for best
possible use. The book is part case study of the amazing
greenhouses at CRMPI and part how-to primer for anyone interested
in a more integrated model for growing food and medicine in a
greenhouse. With detailed design drawings, photos, and profiles of
successful greenhouse projects on all scales, this inspirational
manual will considerably change the conversation about greenhouse
design.
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