Everyone pitching in to build the green house
For those of you who know me you have heard me talking about the greenhouse that I’ve been planning to build for awhile. And, despite my 5 1/2 years of officially accredited training in Architecture I seem to be afraid to design it. I believe that it is due to the fact that I have several complicated things I wish to accomplish while building my green house. Some of them I’ve seen others do and some of them I just created in my head such as:
- building the green house out of all recycled materials – I have some old wood from a friend’s deck and windows removed from a house. My problem is if I do the next thing on this list I’m not sure if I can use these things and not have chemicals in my water run off from the treated wood.
- create a system where I can divert the water run off coming from watering my seedlings into a barrel that I can reuse
- design a green house that can be built on a trailer to be pulled by my truck – I don’t own my house so I want to be able to bring my beautiful new greenhouse with me wherever I go.
Then I heard about this greenhouse building seminar. We are constructing two greenhouses. So far we aren’t addressing much of the issues on my list but I have access to two experienced greenhouse users, Max from Urban Roots and David Pitre from Tecolote Farm. David gave a talk at the beginning of the day that pointed out hoards of issues I never even thought about until now. Like creating heat sources without electricity or gas.
Luckily there is one more day of this class next week. I hope to get some measurements and a drawing down on paper to show David and Max. I would love to get some solid advice on what direction to go.
