Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Amanda Peck" <ap615@hotmail.com>]

I love the story of the Nebraska farmer growing oranges.  Bookmarked it.

And I'm glad to see something on earth tubes for something other than 
heavily insulated houses.  Bookmarked that one too, will send it off to an 
Australian who is experimenting with earth/cool tubes.  If I can find some 
way to do the ditches safely I may try it myself.  But deep and very narrow 
ditches are something to be quite wary of, if the sides collapse one could 
be buried.

Don Stephens who talks about AGS--created the acronym--is on a handful of 
Yahoo Groups, including Organic Architecture, I believe, so that's a good 
place to go too.

Look up Solviva for a description of a chicken heated greenhouse on Cape 
Cod.  At one stage she was planning sell some or all of her operation, but 
there's still a web-site--and a book that is still in print.

http://www.solviva.com/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0966234901/103-4441361-7626258?v=glance&n=283155