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  • From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] NEW BOOK /The Forest Garden Greenhouse How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis by Jerome Osentowski
  • Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 16:23:10 -0700

NEW BOOK /The Forest Garden Greenhouse
How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis
by Jerome Osentowski
http://www.chelseagreen.com/…/the_forest_garden_greenhouse:…
The Forest Garden Greenhouse
How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis
by Jerome Osentowski
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.
About the Author
Jerome Osentowski
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.
http://crmpi.org
- See more at: http://www.chelseagreen.com/…/the_forest_garden_greenhouse:…
http://www.chelseagreen.com/…/the_forest_garden_greenhouse


  • [permaculture] NEW BOOK /The Forest Garden Greenhouse How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis by Jerome Osentowski, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 10/04/2015

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