GREENHOUSES

At Foggy Lane Garden, simple systems for heating are being used to heat the homebuilt greenhouse. Here is a tour showing how wood heat and a bit of electricity is helping create a year-round grow space in wet, windy, winter here in Newfoundland.

Starting in 2017, this Newfoundland gardener has developed a simple homebuilt greenhouse structure attached to his house that is successfully growing food right through the winter. Here are the steps he has taken to achieve this!

This deep winter greenhouse in Saskatchewan is a large grow space based on principles of passive heat collection. It is an example of a structure that at 32 x 54 feet provides a lot of space for winter growing.

Here is a detailed report on the Chinese passive solar greenhouse design that is being used in Alberta: https://www.scribd.com/presentation/445922152/Organic-Alberta-2020-Conference-Presentation-Chinese-Style-Passive-Solar-Greenhouse-in-Alberta-by-Jianyi-Dong#download&from_embed For more information, you can also read this article HERE.

This article has all the information you need to build your own underground greenhouse.

It’s been five years since the idea to build a year-round multi-use greenhouse on the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Farm in Dawson City was first discussed. Now it is finally becoming a reality — slowly. CBC has the update HERE.

Deborah and Gabe transformed an empty backyard lawn into an abundant permaculture micro-farm where they’re growing fresh fruits and vegetables for themselves and for sale at their farm gate stand. To grow food year-round in a northern climate, they also have a geodesic dome greenhouse with an indoor pond that helps regulate the temperature in all 4 seasons. The couple is using permaculture and hügelkultur methods to grow food in their backyard gardens and they don’t use any p

A collection of temporary carports have cropped up on a Montreal street this winter, draped in transparent, polycarbonate sheeting rather than white plastic tarps that flap on windy days. But these tempos aren’t for vehicles. “On this street, before our greenhouses, it was just parking spots and now it’s vegetables that grow,” said Héloise Koltuk. She’s with Laboratoire sur l’agriculture urbaine, a Montreal-based organization that is focused on urban agriculture research and

Watch this video that tells a story about a beginner greenhouse!

Part One: Greenhouse Shape If you’ve decided you want to build a greenhouse, you probably already have a pretty good idea of what it will look like and where it will go. This article will examine a few advantages and disadvantages of specific greenhouse designs, as well as some of the things you’ll need to consider about greenhouse orientation and placement. Let’s start with shape of the greenhouse (we’ll deal with structure and materials in a later article). Greenhouses come

This video shows early starting in an inexpensive simple high tunnel greenhouse. It demonstrates basic ways of using the protective structure in northern climates to extend the growing season.

Using an unheated greenhouse in upstate New York, this grower is able to overwinter vegetables, in a partially insulated 750 square foot passive solar structure with barrels of water for thermal mass. This is a detailed tour of the structure and how it was built.

In this episode of Ivan Emke’s Fit to Eat podcast, Ivan and Dan Rubin visit David Jason Goodyear in Flatrock, NL, and learn how he grows and stores almost all his food with his earth sheltered greenhouse, raised bed garden and root cellar. Click here to access the podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-73996591/s2e2-david-goodyear?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fuser-73996591%252Fs2e2-david-goodyear

This greenhouse design, which is common in China, where hundreds of acres are covered with similar structures, works just fine in sub zero temperatures in Alberta where selected crops may be grown year round. Using an earth berm for passive sun energy storage, it works just fine, for the right crops.

In a series of articles, we will help you explore how to choose your greenhouse options – siting, shape, covering material, growing systems, etc. – in order to get the most out of your new construction. This series will be aimed at helping you plan your first greenhouse, but, even if you’re a seasoned grower, you may still find a few gems of wisdom along the way. To begin, let’s define what a greenhouse is and how it works. After that, we can take a look at what you will want

Researchers in Manitoba have been exploring the potential for Chinese style passive solar greenhouses for growing food in cold climates. Here is an article about their work: https://www.greenhousecanada.com/the-solar-solution-1562/

Growing in Newfoundland and Labrador can be challenging. Growing in Deep Winter Greenhouse may be an option to provide healthy food to small communities. Learn more in the video below!

Annette Clarke’s nursery is expanding the definition of what’s growable out east. Tart Chilean guava berries, plump persimmons the size of tomatoes, and pods of blue sausage fruit, also known as dead man’s fingers. This list sounds like an inventory of the world’s most magical fruit aisle, but in fact, all of this exotic produce (and more) is currently sprouting in a massive greenhouse located just outside of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Exotic Fruit Nursery, an operation built an