The Forest Garden Greenhouse: How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis Contributor(s): Osentowski, Jerome (Author) |
|
ISBN: 1603584269 ISBN-13: 9781603584265 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Gardening | Greenhouses - Gardening | Techniques - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture |
Dewey: 631.583 |
LCCN: 2015020017 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8" W x 10" (1.80 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Osentowski, Jerome: - A forager and permaculturist with roots in rural Nebraska, Jerome Osentowski lives in a passive solar home he built at 7200 feet above Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley. 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 in the Rockies and beyond. 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 intensive permaculture and greenhouse design courses. Among his accomplishments is hosting the longest-running Permaculture Design Course in the world, now at twenty-nine years running. Jerome and Michael have also been instrumental in identifying, conserving, and propagating heritage fruit trees that have survived and borne crops for over a century in the harsh environment of the Roaring Fork Valley. Jerome's explorations of sustainable systems and his travels for development projects have taken him to Baja, Nicaragua, Patagonia, Finland, Australia, and the Caribbean. |