permaculture

["Naomi & Rick Coleman" <peds@tpg.com.au>]

We have a friend who constructed a greenhouse / chookhouse.

The dividing wall was made of reused 20L distilled water drums with screw on
black caps... he got them from his work at a bakery.

He filled every second drum with water for thermal mass. And the alternate
ones he left the cap off, cut away the side of the container to make a
nesting box and put a tube of black ag drain pipe (flexible 90mm) instead of
the screw cap. When the chickens slept in their at night, their warmth was
piped in to the greenhouse, as well as the thermal mass of the water which
served both the greenhouse and the chickens!

Very creative, worked well. The internal wall must have access to sun.

Hope that helps,

Naomi

----- Original Message -----
From: "georg parlow" <georg@websuxxess.com>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2001 7:53
Subject: Re: Anna Edey-style Greenhouses (Solviva)


> > Does anyone on this list know of anyone who has incorporated a
> > chickencoop/greenhouse into their garden? I'm very interested in
> > discussing some technical considerations off-line.
>
> joe polaischer in new zealand - but i have no email adress, while i do
know
> he does have one.
>
> i myself used to have a derivate of it in germany (while i used to live
> there): it was a simple foil tunnel, with one end fenced off for the
chooks
> to spend the night in. (not a lot of technics there, really)
>
> greetings
> georg
>
>
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