Hi Cory,

The Eco-Home Library contains a couple of precious old resources I'd be willing to share, but I'd need to have your word of honor that they'd be returned, as I suspect they're all out of print now.
1. The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse: Design, Constructio and Operation by Bill Yanda and Rick Fisher, John Muir Publications, PO Box 613, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501, 1976 & 1980, ISBN # 0-912528-20-6
2. The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse: A Guide to Year-Round Food Production by Shane Smith with an Introduction by Bill Yanda, John Muir Publications, 1982, ISBN # 0-912528-08-7
3. How To Build and Use Greenhouses by T. Jeff Williams, Ortho Books, 1978, ISBN # 0-917102-74-6

But why build greenhouses in southern California? We can grow food and fruit here all year 'round anyway, without greenhouses. What about building a rain cathchment system in the project in South Central LA, instead?
That would seem to me to be a much more climate appropriate environmetnal improvement project than a greenhouse. Brad Lancaster's book, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape, ISBN # 0-9772464-0-X, 2006, distributed by Chelsea Green Publishing Company, (800) 639-4099. Rainwater catchment is definitely my next project for Eco-Home.

Good Luck!

Best,
Julia

Cory Brennan wrote:

I am looking for info on cheap, self-sufficient greenhouses for a variety of climatic conditions. I am researching the gamut right now. What is possible, what is the state of the art (even if expensive), what are the production differences, how do they stand up against heavy weather, etc. What greenhouse tech is available to heat with free energy, what is the best material available and why, what about portable or do it yourself assembly greenhouses? We want to grow anything and everything in there :-) Anybody who has experience with greenhouses, please contact me! This is for a project in South Central LA and on a Native American reservation. The one in South Central is going to have to deal with a lot less weather than the one on the reservation.

I am familiar with Anna Edey and Solviva, which is very good stuff. I just want to find out what else is out there.

Cory Brennan

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