Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["David Inglis" <mhcsa@verizon.net>]

Hi Pego,
Here are a couple of links along these lines. They are related to the air
wells in that the systems rely on the phase change of dew formation to
release the accumulated heat underground. Good luck.
David.
Mahaiwe Harvst C.S.A., Massachusetts. 
http://www.sunnyjohn.com/indexpages/shcs_faq.htm#faq18
http://www.greenershelter.com/index.php?pg=2



> -----Original Message-----
> From: livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:livingontheland-
> bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Pego Rice
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 1:24 AM
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [Livingontheland] Waffle Gardens, Air Wells
> 
> Hi Tom, Deiter
> 
> The Air wells are new to me and I am intrigued at a
> second application in greenhouse management.  I am
> really stupid tired from work and simply cannot find
> or remember where I put the links to show what I am
> talking about.  However, What I am remembering is a
> small farmer that placed a series of earth tubes
> under his greenhouse to create a moderated weather
> system there for 12 month a year growing conditions.
> The article had it at several years down the road that
> he had managed this system and he'd hooked his house
> into it because if it's efficiency.  Here, in the
> hideous heat south I simply can't get lettuce or
> tomatoes to talk to me during the summer, among other
> things, so the energy to build such a system seems to
> promise an efficient return in creating optimal
> growing conditions.
> 
> This isn't an everybody kind of thing, it is a system
> that probably only appeals to very hot of cold growing
> areas/seasons.
> 
> I'll knock off before I reach total gibberish.
> 
> Yous, Pego
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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