No amount off federal and provincial funding of university students come close to the real world testing and experience of a down to earth guy like you. Hope to visit.
@@ArkopiaTH-cam yep mine as described above has the college grad students doing comp labor for my handicapped but so the classes can be brought threw on tours. yep experience over paper work every time . She works on & with mother natures methods. to provide me enough & then some. thanks God
@@ArkopiaTH-cam I am in Wisconsin US and just stumbled on this as well as the other one just released. I know you have been asked a hundred times, but do you allow visitors, or do you offer any plans etc? I can make it out from watching, but we would be on an extremely fast track to close in by winter.... Terry
I'm extremely disappointed in youtube, I've been looking for videos of winter greenhouses for the past few years. I live on the 45th and have had trouble finding deep winter greenhouse videos until now, this is really impressive and inspiring! Liked and subbed!
Me too! I look for over a year for Winter Greenhouses, because I live in northern Sweden on the 66th. And I only found this video because I was looking for video's about composter? 🤔 Anyhow, glad to found it!
Use a copper pipe coil on the stove chimney to heat the water for the bathroom. Get an insulated hot water tank to keep it warm and put that above the bathroom. Save on energy heating the water.
run the copper pipe as a closed loop with a thermostat controlled return valve feed the tank with rain water, this way the water will return to stove to keep tank water at constant temp very limited solar or wind jammer to run thermo. hot & cooler water will move the heat around .
Fish. With your temperatures and humidity I would consider growing black soldier fly larvae for your fish and chickens if you have them. All eat the dead flies too.
as I was just talking with another viewer he should add both passive solar hot water & heat loop off fire stove to heat the hot tub sauna & talopia tanks in a zoned & thermastaticly controlled series of check valves to maintain temps. at each point of use. as well as have return heat loops to hold tank water temps with minimal power input no need for pumps when set up right hot water will rise & cooler water would be allowed to fall.
For your insulation I would not rely on concrete board near the fire again. My wood stove cracked the concrete board and caught the wall behind on fire, nearly burned my new shop to the ground! After working with tiles, bricks, high heat mortar etc I learned that the best insulation for me was about 8” from the back of the fireplace to a piece of sheet metal and a 3cm gap to a wall. The wall remained cool after that. Good luck!
Four to six unit condo complexes should be attached to these all over Canada. You want to disrupt the real estate industry..this is how you do it! Watch people become happy overnight
@lynngill1588 they already do that there, although I don't think they have many residential systems. But (at least) one of their provinces, collectect the verge grass from their highway to produce biogas. It gets upgraded and then injected into the natural gas grid. This probably adds to the cost aswell. The Netherlands have been for a long time self-sufficient with natural gas. But recently have shut most of their wells as it causes earthquakes. Their government also wants to take all their households (8 million homes, of which the majority cooks and is heated by natural gas) off the natural gas, (and go electric for cooking, and heatpumps for heating) in the next decade or so.
You are a visionary. Creating an environment for your family to weather the serious winters......priceless. Keep up the good work. I grow bananas and sometimes it takes up to 2 years to get banana fruit and I live in the Caribbean so it's coming and will be worth the wait.
We’d love to come for a visit this winter. We’re in Winnipeg doing gardening, egg and meat chickens and cows. This greenhouse is very impressive! I haven’t seen anyone else who has thought of so many systems and incorporated them all into one cohesive building suitable for the cold Canadian prairie winters. Well done!
if your on the open planes of Canada, you need to dig down at least 6' then berm up all the way around. use hay bales for insulation around inside walls (they can make great potato beds if they are aloud to rot for a couple seasons & then add 8" of top soil and plant the following season. Also place seeding trays on them as shelves in the mean time. after digging in & before building add heat ex-changers like he has they really work great. you can use pallets & plastic for semi sealed floor while still letting you grow melons & corns indoors with clean floors. no ground born issues either.
i am pretty sure everybody here enjoyed the detailed tour and absorbed a bunch of valuable knowledge from you. We hang in there for some more. Thanks so much!
What an incredible set up, great design implementation and use of "waste" materials. Regarding the banana plants 23:00, you basically want 4 generations of banana growing at any one time, so you have a great grandmother, a grandmother, a mother and a daughter plant. You should remove all but one of the pups from each generation. You will eventually get fruit from the great grandmother, but it will only fruit once, then you will have to cut it down and use it for compost. The 4 generation system means you will have a steady supply of fruiting plants.
Bananas take 18 months to bear fruit. It will curl 9ver as it grows the banana stand. You could sell the banana pups because they are prolific. Also for stubborn weeds...get a rain barrel of water and dissolve your weeds in the water..... makes excellent fertiliser and you won't have it growing in your compost. Instead of hanging a string system from the roof... use old scaffolding instead, that way you won't put holes in the vapour barrier and it can be moved around.
What a tour! No stone left not turned over. Speaking of stones, a pan full of stones on the rear of your sauna stove will work nicely to make steam. So many good ideas at work. Your problem is you need a production team like Saul had. "High cost of building got you down? Better call Dean!" Haha. Thanks for sharing what you're doing.
The weeds are telling you the soil is more bacteria-based and less fungal-based. Add compost of oak/maple/etc leaves to get the fungal percentages up. Look up soil-food-web Elaine Ingham, johnson-su bioreactor, and christine jones. Your banana trees are amazing. So are the design improvements to the water system. You've done a huge amount of work on this as well as experimenting to try new things and keep what works.
I ran a test aquaponics system for 6 years with tilapia, pacu ( warm H20) and rainbow trout (cold H20). Heat i learned was instead of planning to eat my pets i will be going with koi due to the temperature range they will stand and sell the large ones to the pond guys. Have wood heater, solar tubes, and buried old C3 tanks for the solar hot water as a battery with heat exchangers and truck radiator with fan . Your greenhouse looks great. Good job
This guy is my hero. I am going to determine whether or not I can do this on my property. My greenhouse wouldn’t be as large, but to be able to garden year-round would be awesome. My ground temperature hovers around 60 degF, so my winter and summer swings would probably be pretty manageable. Outstanding!
I watched both your videos I am from Alberta and I am gonna build what you have going on man. I have been planning it for years and with the price of everything in the store. this summer I am gonna get it done so I can use it next winter. And pre grow stuff for the outdoor garden. Good job man you did a really good job. I might buy a spray foam insulation machine to cut my insulation costs down.
Thanks Dean for another great and update video. Your humility in reading, responding and benefiting from the comments is greatly appreciated. Many of these new and nice revisions were raised by commentators including myself and were nicely executed by a professional DIYer 👌. You may consider: 1- Chaining the rainwater tanks to the back wall/ ceiling as an extra support for more safety specially with the risk of rust and weakening iron support. 2- Upgrading the aquaponic to Sandponic ( IAVS) system for better results, wider range of plants, safer for the fish, eliminating the need for filters ...etc. 3- Add Moringa to use yourself and utilize it for fish feeding. 4- You may consider adding honey bees for pollination and honey 🍯. Looking forward for more updates , blueprints and measurements soon 😀 Please keep up the good work 👏 and Good luck 👍
Thanks so much. And I do appreciate all comments and ideas. I’ve never even heard of sandponics; I guess I’ll have to dive down that rabbit hole. 😂 Maybe we will put a bee hive in there as a test one of these days. And we’ll try Moringa. Thanks so much. 👍✌️
@@allmedcom If it is a potential issue, we’re talking in about 20-30 years from now? As it’s painted (protected) metal. Nor is it driving through rain, snow, sea air, dirt, gravel (to cause knicks/damage or to hold onto the moisture). It’s thick metal, unlike the like body parts of a gmc vehicle... whereas the frame that rots out takes long time, and requires salts, dirt and a lot of moisture (ie. wetness). Seems like an extra expense and an extra amount of work for absolutely nothing.
“Mangos hate my guts and I can’t grow a mango” 😂 The gardener never stops the learning journey!! Bravo to what you’ve accomplished so far - it must be the best feeling on Earth to be self reliant. I’m taking my PDC right now with Verge Permaculture and learning so much. Permaculture rocks!!!
i like it. i like your "can do" attitude. i like your courage to even attempt this in the first place. The net or string system that you decide on is going to be awesome. Maybe the mangos don't care for the hot air blast from the ceiling fans steadily driving into them. Maybe it would be worth it to try planting one mango out of the breeze and also directly into the soil out of the pot. i really appreciated all the tomatoe "weeds". And please put three planks on each scaffolding station so i don't have to watch you stepping out on air again with it's delaying, painful results. 😎
Wonderful build! One note from my experience, however. I harvested rain/snow melt from a roof with a wood stove chimney through it for a third bedroom hydroponics system experiment with both Tilapia (Summer, and high Chlorine content in city tap water) and Trout (Winter) and found the water had a distinct creosote smell and even a dark tint sometimes. It came from the ash and tar like drippings from the chimney. Had to burn hotter fires, clean chimney more often, and change which side of the roof I collected water from. The trout hated it. You have the option to make the chimney penetration through the wall to allow the junk from the chimney to fall outside your roof catchment system, which I did not. Just a thought. Thanks for the great tour!!!!!!!
Good thought. I can’t see me bothering with snow melt, so just the fair-weather rain. I’ll have a couple of first flush filters as well is the plan. 🙏✌️
You and your family enjoy spending time in this greenhouse, so the mango that keeps dying is doing you a huge favor. I used to live in the caribbean and for 4 months of the year the mango trees just smelled like stale cat urine.
I have seen a lot of people use floating grow containers in the fish tanks for leafy greens - no need to add any nutrients as the fish do that for you! Something to think about to maximize space in the summer!
Amazing job fantastic work I suggest you add potatoes in bags which can be placed anywhere or suspended or against the wall also garlic is a good in ground crop and mushrooms on the walls in the corners you can get very creative with mushrooms in the space good luck God bless
Congratulations on making an idea happen. An outdoor wood fired boiler would really tie into your system nicely. Small circulation pump moves hot water through your floor or fish tanks. A radiator and fan for cold night supplement The boiler combustion air control regulates the fire to save wood use when not needed. If you have a cabinet shop or wood flooring manufacturer in your area, their waste is really easy to process for fuel. It's all kiln dried, no splitting or stacking, I feed boiler from the same trailer I pick the wood up from in. Also once you get a hot tub you will use it every night. They are cheep used.
@@ArkopiaTH-cam the way I have it worked out, I only touch the wood with my hands when I throw it in the boiler door. Can also heat domestic hot water and hot tub.
why add pumps that cost to opperate & are prone to to failure. hot water rises cooler (not cold ) water falls & or is pushed downward as it is displaced by hotter rising water moving up. Build a closed loop system off the wood stove's chimney with pipes feeding a hot water tank above the bath rm, as well as line that run through some if not all of the rain water tanks & then run it into his in ground pipe system. with proper heat levels he can get water to move as needed & with the ground heated there will be little if any more heating needed. no pumps needed or risking your crop when they fail. Sorry pumps are a touchy point with me from a couple times when they failed in my hydroponic systems. that is the main reason I use the system designed by Professor B.A. Kratki from Hawaii who has several doctorates in horticulture. trust me I've done my share of trial & errors to reach a point now where,my local horticultural proffer brings his classes to tour my GH. in exchange for his lending me manual labor in the form of grad students. As I am wheelchair bound & in my 10' deep x 45' long x 21' tall at the roofs peak GH I am able to grow fish ( I use channel cat fish as they can tolerate colder non moving water so no pumps ) as well as 1500 plus plants ( including various mellons squashes & corns ) with all natural automated watering, fertilizing, composting, heating, & cooling systems. as well as having semi porous flooring that keeps mud & dirt to a minimum for my chairs sake. I love this video because it's a rich guys vertion of what I've had to build on a much smaller budget. great job boss. please cross brace the bottom of the water box stand it looks scary
Probably one of the best builds i've seen. I was really curious about moisture when I first saw those engineered stringers. I can't wait to see more videos about this building as you grow.
WOW! What a huge difference in this greenhouse! I love the idea of the fish, as well as the plants. Your figs & banana trees look great, as well as the Veggies! Everything looks well organized and the kids able to go "outside" to ride bikes without freezing is wonderful!
I love what you have done and can't wait to see all of your videos. I dream of adding a greenhouse to my home in Manitoba. You are very inspiring and thanks so much for sharing!
Wow, that’s quite the creative multi purpose system, almost literally 1000 uses…. Brook trout are cool and rarely used in aquaponics and not even much in aquaculture. Watering with fish water will be incredible free fertilizer forever, those plants will thrive. Love to see the system in a year or two.
Absolutely amazing tour. I'd love to know how you build your soil and fertilize but I guess that's your wife's department. 😄You are an inspiration, especially to those of us with 6 months of winter.
I like that you only have the sound of running water going. I don't like greenhouses with loud fans, blowing all the time. That loud motor sound kills the feel of tranquility and gives it an industrial space athmosphere. I also like all of you ideas so I'll subscribe to see it come to life, whenever it happens. It already looks very good, like the greenhouse should look with lots of plans and trees. Much energy to you and time to achive all of your plans, so we can enjoy it too!
strongly agree about the noisy fans. especially as if they would learn from nature they can heat & or cool by imitating natural systems to form large scale sealed bio spheres like terrariums. where all the systems are passive with many self replenishing.
Fantastic work and ideas! You have inspired me! Possibly a little more cross bracing on the pallet racking, to prevent catastrophe. Add a 1/2” Simpson Titen Concrete Screw to the front feet.
Wow, just wow. Incredible, amazing and intelligent, but so simple really. You have it figured out man. There's a learning curve, but you are writing the book. I want a fricking banana tree.
This is truly remarkable! You’ve made so much progress since the last video, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment! If you ever decide to write a book or create a video instructions series on everything from figuring out the greenhouse angles based on location in the world to lessons learned from the fish/plants/rainwater etc, I’ll be first in line to buy it. I’d love to make a set up like this in Wisconsin.
what would it be worth to you for a version of this kind of GH build that could cost less while providing more crops in less space? I allow local college horticulture professor to bring his classes through for tours in exchange for his grad students helping my crippled but do more manual labor . And mine is most all above ground level so I can work it from my wheelchair. So very minimal mud if any. oh & if you were to build that water tank rack. anchor the feet into concrete as well as tie the bottom of the legs together. I've been around that type scaffolding and it is usually used with more lower cross bracing. the idea is great but from what i saw I worry for his safety.
what if the sauna bench and or room was made of a thermal sand storage battery that held extra heat, and was networked into the inground heat pipes, that are also hooked to the solar voltaic tubes on the roof. sand and zeolite mixed holds more thermal mass than water. This way the solar voltaic tubes are always priming the sauna/thermal storage for the coldest nights and getting the most out of your solar voltaic tubes at all times.
Your systems look amazing. If you are ever able to you should sell the plans so that other people could try to mimic your greenhouse. You have truly thought through so much and your work looks amazing. I hope that everything just gets better for you from here out.
You should try lemons or oranges more pounds per square meter than banana or other tropicals. Also banana bears once and needs to be replaced. Fig is good for passive system. You could store more solar in walkways during winter by using black cover on them, maybe hard black rubber mat. A bio-gas digester could be a good source of fertilizer and extra heating fuel. It could be tucked in at back wall. A manifold to heat your water in storage could be set up in the sun outside with freeze proof liquid pumped around tanks and in floor. Or save on the liquid by just heating tanks and run the water from them through the floor. A coil of 1inch copper pipe could harvest some heat from stovepipe and be pumped into floor with water and/or be used in your shower.
Glad to have found you and your video. Most certainly, I will borrow a few ideas from you. Thx for the effort to share your experience in addition of all the rest.
Love your greenhouse! Everything is so beautiful. The white flies can be very damaging. If your predator bugs don't get them, you can make a diy insecticidal soap that can help.
I saw boiler wood stoves when looking online a few weeks ago, was excited to see them, I may need to go that way. HEEHEE, lots to do but get the weeding done before next projects, if they go to seed you will never be rid of them! If I was a neighbor I could weed for food ... LOL. For some reason blueberries can be a bugger, not sure why. Pretty awesome!!! I live in a cold area also so am collecting ideas, thanks. Glad something good is going on in Canada.
Great greenhouse!! We need more of these in the "great white north". It will be nice to see when someone takes your ideas and turn this greenhouse into a suburban back yard size. I think we're going to need them across Canada. I'm on Vancouver Island so a sheet of plastic & season appropriate planting works well, but most of Canada isn't so lucky. Great ideas!!!
Your wonderful greenhouse is inspiring me to plan on building my own greenhouse when I move in to a piece of land of my own. 😅 Hopefully my greenhouse will be as functional as the greenhouse that you built. ❤️ Here's to hoping that I could grow vanilla beans and cacao beans in there. 👍🙏
Love the system, l'd suggest an air-lock or porch entry system. Because if the entrance door is accidentally left open the plants will all die off from shock. Would be interesting to have another one for sheep/cows & chickens to come in in the evening. Through lots of flapping drapped plastic vertical slates like you get at large building that are regularly worked in & out of. The racking system does look dodgy & l'd say add more upright stantions!
I absolutely love all of the thought and consideration for summer and winter solstices and how that plays a role in the different colors of concrete and how much light is coming at different times of the year. I'm truly fascinated about all of this. Is there a reference source of information where you learn this? Maybe a book or a website?
Amazing thought process. The scientist at NASA should be sold your complexed invention for future planet settlements. I wish I personally could have your mini complete environment
Consider growing the vine plants and tomatoes along the concrete path from the front of the green house to the back in the planting bed. You could connect the twine at the top but use ladders or rolling ladders on the concrete vs dealing with soil in the middle of the planting bed when you let the twine down to lower the plants so the fruit is easier to pick like they do in commercial greenhouses. That also means tall large plants like bananas can't be along concrete like you have the one in the corner-ish along one of the paths. Plant them in front of the roof support beams that are already creating a little shade. Also keep the shorter plants away from those paths so vines have the space. Have you pondered screening the windows and doors? Preventing pests from entering when they are open for cross breeze may be helpful in the future. Love the build, I could spend all day in a greenhouse like that one.
The only thing that's a concern for myself is the lack of hight of the ceiling and width of the building to flesh out the building for fruit trees and for greater floor space(but that's only for myself)! With the way you've built everything you have done a great job and given people a really good example. Have a ripper mate!
I would suggest adding boysenberry (if you are looking for a berry) as a great climber. My winter greenhouse is a cool not hot version in our zone3 BC north winter but this has been a huge producer for our family and uses wall space on a trellis in just the second year it is up to full production.Soooo many berries from just one plant !
No amount off federal and provincial funding of university students come close to the real world testing and experience of a down to earth guy like you. Hope to visit.
❤️ Thanks for that. 👍✌️
@@ArkopiaTH-cam yep mine as described above has the college grad students doing comp labor for my handicapped but so the classes can be brought threw on tours. yep experience over paper work every time . She works on & with mother natures methods. to provide me enough & then some. thanks God
@@ArkopiaTH-cam I am in Wisconsin US and just stumbled on this as well as the other one just released. I know you have been asked a hundred times, but do you allow visitors, or do you offer any plans etc? I can make it out from watching, but we would be on an extremely fast track to close in by winter.... Terry
I'm extremely disappointed in youtube, I've been looking for videos of winter greenhouses for the past few years. I live on the 45th and have had trouble finding deep winter greenhouse videos until now, this is really impressive and inspiring! Liked and subbed!
Me too! I look for over a year for Winter Greenhouses, because I live in northern Sweden on the 66th.
And I only found this video because I was looking for video's about composter? 🤔
Anyhow, glad to found it!
Both of you beat me here and I've been searching just as long
You guys aren’t looking very hard, there are plenty of videos on line.
Try “citrus in the snow” as a search.
Big Time. 💋💃🍑🍆🍌💋. 👁🌎👽🛸. 💋👍🏿💋
I agree with ya there you tube stinks like Justin Trudy.
I think I speak for alot of people when I say can't wait for the next episode.
Use a copper pipe coil on the stove chimney to heat the water for the bathroom. Get an insulated hot water tank to keep it warm and put that above the bathroom. Save on energy heating the water.
run the copper pipe as a closed loop with a thermostat controlled return valve feed the tank with rain water, this way the water will return to stove to keep tank water at constant temp very limited solar or wind jammer to run thermo. hot & cooler water will move the heat around .
Heat recovery from chimneys always has value. Over cooling the chimney does have issues so of course the careful balance.
He needs a masonry heater with huge thermal mass. Iron stoves are wasting energy...
Genius setup... great use of space, materials, building practices, plant and fish set up, sauna and wood stove. Just excellent!
Fish. With your temperatures and humidity I would consider growing black soldier fly larvae for your fish and chickens if you have them. All eat the dead flies too.
Genius adding the sauna and woodstove sitting area! What a dreamy greenhouse!! 😍
For the tilapia tank, I suggest building a solar water heater with thermostat and automatic pump to keep the water temperature warm.
as I was just talking with another viewer he should add both passive solar hot water & heat loop off fire stove to heat the hot tub sauna & talopia tanks in a zoned & thermastaticly controlled series of check valves to maintain temps. at each point of use. as well as have return heat loops to hold tank water temps with minimal power input no need for pumps when set up right hot water will rise & cooler water would be allowed to fall.
For your insulation I would not rely on concrete board near the fire again. My wood stove cracked the concrete board and caught the wall behind on fire, nearly burned my new shop to the ground! After working with tiles, bricks, high heat mortar etc I learned that the best insulation for me was about 8” from the back of the fireplace to a piece of sheet metal and a 3cm gap to a wall. The wall remained cool after that. Good luck!
For sure. Steel studs, might even weld up a frame around the stove somehow. No wood. 👍
Four to six unit condo complexes should be attached to these all over Canada. You want to disrupt the real estate industry..this is how you do it! Watch people become happy overnight
Energy prices suck here in The Netherlands , gas prices too , $ 10 a gallon , thanks for your vids
Brutal. I suppose we’re lucky that way in Canada. All the best this winter to you all.
you need to look into bio gas tech with those prices wow
@lynngill1588 they already do that there, although I don't think they have many residential systems. But (at least) one of their provinces, collectect the verge grass from their highway to produce biogas. It gets upgraded and then injected into the natural gas grid. This probably adds to the cost aswell. The Netherlands have been for a long time self-sufficient with natural gas. But recently have shut most of their wells as it causes earthquakes. Their government also wants to take all their households (8 million homes, of which the majority cooks and is heated by natural gas) off the natural gas, (and go electric for cooking, and heatpumps for heating) in the next decade or so.
You are a visionary. Creating an environment for your family to weather the serious winters......priceless. Keep up the good work.
I grow bananas and sometimes it takes up to 2 years to get banana fruit and I live in the Caribbean so it's coming and will be worth the wait.
We’d love to come for a visit this winter. We’re in Winnipeg doing gardening, egg and meat chickens and cows. This greenhouse is very impressive! I haven’t seen anyone else who has thought of so many systems and incorporated them all into one cohesive building suitable for the cold Canadian prairie winters. Well done!
if your on the open planes of Canada, you need to dig down at least 6' then berm up all the way around. use hay bales for insulation around inside walls (they can make great potato beds if they are aloud to rot for a couple seasons & then add 8" of top soil and plant the following season. Also place seeding trays on them as shelves in the mean time. after digging in & before building add heat ex-changers like he has they really work great. you can use pallets & plastic for semi sealed floor while still letting you grow melons & corns indoors with clean floors. no ground born issues either.
i am pretty sure everybody here enjoyed the detailed tour and absorbed a bunch of valuable knowledge from you. We hang in there for some more. Thanks so much!
What an incredible set up, great design implementation and use of "waste" materials.
Regarding the banana plants 23:00, you basically want 4 generations of banana growing at any one time, so you have a great grandmother, a grandmother, a mother and a daughter plant. You should remove all but one of the pups from each generation. You will eventually get fruit from the great grandmother, but it will only fruit once, then you will have to cut it down and use it for compost. The 4 generation system means you will have a steady supply of fruiting plants.
Bananas take 18 months to bear fruit. It will curl 9ver as it grows the banana stand. You could sell the banana pups because they are prolific. Also for stubborn weeds...get a rain barrel of water and dissolve your weeds in the water..... makes excellent fertiliser and you won't have it growing in your compost. Instead of hanging a string system from the roof... use old scaffolding instead, that way you won't put holes in the vapour barrier and it can be moved around.
All great ideas. Thank you.
best to compost weeds in tumbler where the seeds will be killed by high temperatures.
What a tour! No stone left not turned over. Speaking of stones, a pan full of stones on the rear of your sauna stove will work nicely to make steam. So many good ideas at work. Your problem is you need a production team like Saul had. "High cost of building got you down? Better call Dean!" Haha.
Thanks for sharing what you're doing.
Haha. Thanks buddy. ✌️👍
When you finally harvest bananas I think it will be us collectively having a baby.
😂😂😂
The weeds are telling you the soil is more bacteria-based and less fungal-based. Add compost of oak/maple/etc leaves to get the fungal percentages up. Look up soil-food-web Elaine Ingham, johnson-su bioreactor, and christine jones. Your banana trees are amazing. So are the design improvements to the water system. You've done a huge amount of work on this as well as experimenting to try new things and keep what works.
I’ll look into that. We have mushrooms 🍄 popping up all over the place now. And they are edible ones, so bonus. 👍✌️
I ran a test aquaponics system for 6 years with tilapia, pacu ( warm H20) and rainbow trout (cold H20). Heat i learned was instead of planning to eat my pets i will be going with koi due to the temperature range they will stand and sell the large ones to the pond guys.
Have wood heater, solar tubes, and buried old C3 tanks for the solar hot water as a battery with heat exchangers and truck radiator with fan . Your greenhouse looks great. Good job
If you want a free dehumidifier, just stick a steelplate halfway through the roof and have a fan blowing on the inside part and place a drip bucket.
This guy is my hero. I am going to determine whether or not I can do this on my property. My greenhouse wouldn’t be as large, but to be able to garden year-round would be awesome. My ground temperature hovers around 60 degF, so my winter and summer swings would probably be pretty manageable. Outstanding!
I watched both your videos I am from Alberta and I am gonna build what you have going on man. I have been planning it for years and with the price of everything in the store. this summer I am gonna get it done so I can use it next winter. And pre grow stuff for the outdoor garden. Good job man you did a really good job. I might buy a spray foam insulation machine to cut my insulation costs down.
Thanks Dean for another great and update video. Your humility in reading, responding and benefiting from the comments is greatly appreciated. Many of these new and nice revisions were raised by commentators including myself and were nicely executed by a professional DIYer 👌.
You may consider:
1- Chaining the rainwater tanks to the back wall/ ceiling as an extra support for more safety specially with the risk of rust and weakening iron support.
2- Upgrading the aquaponic to Sandponic ( IAVS) system for better results, wider range of plants, safer for the fish, eliminating the need for filters ...etc.
3- Add Moringa to use yourself and utilize it for fish feeding.
4- You may consider adding honey bees for pollination and honey 🍯.
Looking forward for more updates , blueprints and measurements soon 😀
Please keep up the good work 👏 and Good luck 👍
Thanks so much. And I do appreciate all comments and ideas. I’ve never even heard of sandponics; I guess I’ll have to dive down that rabbit hole. 😂 Maybe we will put a bee hive in there as a test one of these days. And we’ll try Moringa. Thanks so much. 👍✌️
I'm interested in the sandponic idea as well. Do you recommend any specific videos or websites?
Rust? Like on his water support racks? I think you’re jumping the shark on that one.
@G MC Why?
What do you get when you expose unprotected iron to water in the presence of oxygen/ air ?
Even G MC cars can rust!
@@allmedcom If it is a potential issue, we’re talking in about 20-30 years from now?
As it’s painted (protected) metal. Nor is it driving through rain, snow, sea air, dirt, gravel (to cause knicks/damage or to hold onto the moisture). It’s thick metal, unlike the like body parts of a gmc vehicle... whereas the frame that rots out takes long time, and requires salts, dirt and a lot of moisture (ie. wetness).
Seems like an extra expense and an extra amount of work for absolutely nothing.
“Mangos hate my guts and I can’t grow a mango” 😂 The gardener never stops the learning journey!! Bravo to what you’ve accomplished so far - it must be the best feeling on Earth to be self reliant. I’m taking my PDC right now with Verge Permaculture and learning so much. Permaculture rocks!!!
i like it. i like your "can do" attitude. i like your courage to even attempt this in the first place. The net or string system that you decide on is going to be awesome. Maybe the mangos don't care for the hot air blast from the ceiling fans steadily driving into them. Maybe it would be worth it to try planting one mango out of the breeze and also directly into the soil out of the pot. i really appreciated all the tomatoe "weeds". And please put three planks on each scaffolding station so i don't have to watch you stepping out on air again with it's delaying, painful results. 😎
The banana plants are amazing! Hats off to you as you reap the rewards this winter.
Wonderful build! One note from my experience, however. I harvested rain/snow melt from a roof with a wood stove chimney through it for a third bedroom hydroponics system experiment with both Tilapia (Summer, and high Chlorine content in city tap water) and Trout (Winter) and found the water had a distinct creosote smell and even a dark tint sometimes. It came from the ash and tar like drippings from the chimney. Had to burn hotter fires, clean chimney more often, and change which side of the roof I collected water from. The trout hated it. You have the option to make the chimney penetration through the wall to allow the junk from the chimney to fall outside your roof catchment system, which I did not. Just a thought. Thanks for the great tour!!!!!!!
Good thought. I can’t see me bothering with snow melt, so just the fair-weather rain. I’ll have a couple of first flush filters as well is the plan. 🙏✌️
You and your family enjoy spending time in this greenhouse, so the mango that keeps dying is doing you a huge favor. I used to live in the caribbean and for 4 months of the year the mango trees just smelled like stale cat urine.
Oh really? Haha. Glad that mango is toast then. 😂
That's an inspirational set up you've made there.
Now you just need some fly traps so those brook trout can get more natural food sources.
Maybe start a mealworm setup and feed them a combination of mealworms and adult flies?
Thanks so much for taking the time to share. This was well worth the watch!
I can't wait to start building my greenhouse here in Willow Alaska next summer. I'm definiately going to model mine after yours. Thanks for sharing.
Getting more awesome by the day. Keep working but don't forget to take an evening off to relax now and then!
I have seen a lot of people use floating grow containers in the fish tanks for leafy greens - no need to add any nutrients as the fish do that for you! Something to think about to maximize space in the summer!
Your greenhouse is next level! I like the vertical climber panels, basically increasing the calories per square foot . Thanks for the tour.
This set up is a dream to reality!! Love it! Don't stop innovating!
Amazing job fantastic work I suggest you add potatoes in bags which can be placed anywhere or suspended or against the wall also garlic is a good in ground crop and mushrooms on the walls in the corners you can get very creative with mushrooms in the space good luck God bless
Your greenhouse looks awesome I wish I had one like yours
my hats off to you as a greenhouse owner and two holes in the ground to be walipini and about 1 acre gardner. YOU DONE GOOD!
Im Jealous , so Jealous, i love that set up. You have done a great job.
Appreciate that. ✌️
Congratulations on making an idea happen.
An outdoor wood fired boiler would really tie into your system nicely. Small circulation pump moves hot water through your floor or fish tanks. A radiator and fan for cold night supplement The boiler combustion air control regulates the fire to save wood use when not needed. If you have a cabinet shop or wood flooring manufacturer in your area, their waste is really easy to process for fuel. It's all kiln dried, no splitting or stacking, I feed boiler from the same trailer I pick the wood up from in.
Also once you get a hot tub you will use it every night. They are cheep used.
The more I build the more an outdoor boiler is making sense. 👍👍
@@ArkopiaTH-cam the way I have it worked out, I only touch the wood with my hands when I throw it in the boiler door. Can also heat domestic hot water and hot tub.
why add pumps that cost to opperate & are prone to to failure. hot water rises cooler (not cold ) water falls & or is pushed downward as it is displaced by hotter rising water moving up. Build a closed loop system off the wood stove's chimney with pipes feeding a hot water tank above the bath rm, as well as line that run through some if not all of the rain water tanks & then run it into his in ground pipe system. with proper heat levels he can get water to move as needed & with the ground heated there will be little if any more heating needed. no pumps needed or risking your crop when they fail. Sorry pumps are a touchy point with me from a couple times when they failed in my hydroponic systems. that is the main reason I use the system designed by Professor B.A. Kratki from Hawaii who has several doctorates in horticulture. trust me I've done my share of trial & errors to reach a point now where,my local horticultural proffer brings his classes to tour my GH. in exchange for his lending me manual labor in the form of grad students. As I am wheelchair bound & in my 10' deep x 45' long x 21' tall at the roofs peak GH I am able to grow fish ( I use channel cat fish as they can tolerate colder non moving water so no pumps ) as well as 1500 plus plants ( including various mellons squashes & corns ) with all natural automated watering, fertilizing, composting, heating, & cooling systems. as well as having semi porous flooring that keeps mud & dirt to a minimum for my chairs sake. I love this video because it's a rich guys vertion of what I've had to build on a much smaller budget. great job boss. please cross brace the bottom of the water box stand it looks scary
One of those most inspiring videos. I am out in Alberta and hope to have something that's even a fraction of this amazing greenhouse one day.
Looks like you done a very nice job !.. thanks for sharing 👍😁
Probably one of the best builds i've seen. I was really curious about moisture when I first saw those engineered stringers. I can't wait to see more videos about this building as you grow.
If you could grow a Soursop tree in there, I'd totally buy some soursop! It was one of my favorite fruits when I was in Costa Rica
WOW! What a huge difference in this greenhouse! I love the idea of the fish, as well as the plants. Your figs & banana trees look great, as well as the Veggies! Everything looks well organized and the kids able to go "outside" to ride bikes without freezing is wonderful!
I love what you have done and can't wait to see all of your videos. I dream of adding a greenhouse to my home in Manitoba. You are very inspiring and thanks so much for sharing!
Wow, that’s quite the creative multi purpose system, almost literally 1000 uses…. Brook trout are cool and rarely used in aquaponics and not even much in aquaculture. Watering with fish water will be incredible free fertilizer forever, those plants will thrive. Love to see the system in a year or two.
Your kids are gonna have stories about all the things you are doing, now. This is amazing!!!
Surprising that humidity isn’t too high in there… Thanks so much for sharing, what a great system!
AWESOME. You have done an exceptional piece of artwork. Totally impressed. Did I miss the sweet potato bed?
If you missed it I also missed it. That’s the wife’s department. 😂
Looks great! Being a greenhouse should keep a eye out for rust damage on the pallet racking.
Absolutely amazing tour. I'd love to know how you build your soil and fertilize but I guess that's your wife's department. 😄You are an inspiration, especially to those of us with 6 months of winter.
I like that you only have the sound of running water going. I don't like greenhouses with loud fans, blowing all the time. That loud motor sound kills the feel of tranquility and gives it an industrial space athmosphere.
I also like all of you ideas so I'll subscribe to see it come to life, whenever it happens. It already looks very good, like the greenhouse should look with lots of plans and trees.
Much energy to you and time to achive all of your plans, so we can enjoy it too!
strongly agree about the noisy fans. especially as if they would learn from nature they can heat & or cool by imitating natural systems to form large scale sealed bio spheres like terrariums. where all the systems are passive with many self replenishing.
Fantastic work and ideas! You have inspired me!
Possibly a little more cross bracing on the pallet racking, to prevent catastrophe. Add a 1/2” Simpson Titen Concrete Screw to the front feet.
Wow, just wow. Incredible, amazing and intelligent, but so simple really. You have it figured out man. There's a learning curve, but you are writing the book. I want a fricking banana tree.
🙏 Thank you. It really is doable. ✌️
This is truly remarkable! You’ve made so much progress since the last video, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment! If you ever decide to write a book or create a video instructions series on everything from figuring out the greenhouse angles based on location in the world to lessons learned from the fish/plants/rainwater etc, I’ll be first in line to buy it. I’d love to make a set up like this in Wisconsin.
Thanks so much. 🙏
what would it be worth to you for a version of this kind of GH build that could cost less while providing more crops in less space? I allow local college horticulture professor to bring his classes through for tours in exchange for his grad students helping my crippled but do more manual labor . And mine is most all above ground level so I can work it from my wheelchair. So very minimal mud if any. oh & if you were to build that water tank rack. anchor the feet into concrete as well as tie the bottom of the legs together. I've been around that type scaffolding and it is usually used with more lower cross bracing. the idea is great but from what i saw I worry for his safety.
You sir are a genius!
Very efficient greenhouse, next project solar energy 👌
dream home, i could sleep in there... lol. well detailed video, excellent...
here cuz of canadian pepper lol...
just gets better and better... love the sauna idea cant wait to see it happen
also a gutter system at base of poly to reclaim water back into system...
what if the sauna bench and or room was made of a thermal sand storage battery that held extra heat, and was networked into the inground heat pipes, that are also hooked to the solar voltaic tubes on the roof. sand and zeolite mixed holds more thermal mass than water. This way the solar voltaic tubes are always priming the sauna/thermal storage for the coldest nights and getting the most out of your solar voltaic tubes at all times.
Lots of cool ideas I can do. More mass the better.
i was thinking two metal barrels in the sauna or as the sauna bench.
Your systems look amazing. If you are ever able to you should sell the plans so that other people could try to mimic your greenhouse. You have truly thought through so much and your work looks amazing. I hope that everything just gets better for you from here out.
Really nice greenhouse!!
Beautiful! I absolutely love watching the progression, very inspiring!
Amazing systems you’re developing! Can’t wait to see patio furniture this winter and your family enjoying summer temps!
Take me a month to get used to just sitting down for once. 😂
Hey neighbor. I was looking for something like this. Great job on the sustainability.
Wow you're building the full works in there, awesome !
Really good to see the improvements! Can't wait to build one.
You should try lemons or oranges more pounds per square meter than banana or other tropicals. Also banana bears once and needs to be replaced. Fig is good for passive system. You could store more solar in walkways during winter by using black cover on them, maybe hard black rubber mat. A bio-gas digester could be a good source of fertilizer and extra heating fuel. It could be tucked in at back wall. A manifold to heat your water in storage could be set up in the sun outside with freeze proof liquid pumped around tanks and in floor. Or save on the liquid by just heating tanks and run the water from them through the floor. A coil of 1inch copper pipe could harvest some heat from stovepipe and be pumped into floor with water and/or be used in your shower.
Hugely impressive! I want to move there.
Glad to have found you and your video. Most certainly, I will borrow a few ideas from you. Thx for the effort to share your experience in addition of all the rest.
Wow, this is a dream greenhouse!! 🪴
Love your greenhouse! Everything is so beautiful.
The white flies can be very damaging. If your predator bugs don't get them, you can make a diy insecticidal soap that can help.
I saw boiler wood stoves when looking online a few weeks ago, was excited to see them, I may need to go that way.
HEEHEE, lots to do but get the weeding done before next projects, if they go to seed you will never be rid of them! If I was a neighbor I could weed for food ... LOL.
For some reason blueberries can be a bugger, not sure why.
Pretty awesome!!! I live in a cold area also so am collecting ideas, thanks. Glad something good is going on in Canada.
Excellent project! You've done a great job on this beautiful, bright greenhouse.
Like to see and hear more about the double windows and door systems. Possibly talk about making a system like this as a home please. You are amazing
This was awesome! Thanks! I have been watching your progress since CP did an interview with you.
Great greenhouse!! We need more of these in the "great white north". It will be nice to see when someone takes your ideas and turn this greenhouse into a suburban back yard size. I think we're going to need them across Canada. I'm on Vancouver Island so a sheet of plastic & season appropriate planting works well, but most of Canada isn't so lucky. Great ideas!!!
This looks very professional and well thought out. Guess I found a new Channel...
I like that you also include the things you removed.
Your wonderful greenhouse is inspiring me to plan on building my own greenhouse when I move in to a piece of land of my own. 😅 Hopefully my greenhouse will be as functional as the greenhouse that you built. ❤️ Here's to hoping that I could grow vanilla beans and cacao beans in there. 👍🙏
Love the system, l'd suggest an air-lock or porch entry system. Because if the entrance door is accidentally left open the plants will all die off from shock. Would be interesting to have another one for sheep/cows & chickens to come in in the evening. Through lots of flapping drapped plastic vertical slates like you get at large building that are regularly worked in & out of. The racking system does look dodgy & l'd say add more upright stantions!
Can't wait for new videos
I absolutely love all of the thought and consideration for summer and winter solstices and how that plays a role in the different colors of concrete and how much light is coming at different times of the year. I'm truly fascinated about all of this. Is there a reference source of information where you learn this? Maybe a book or a website?
I don’t even have a specific reference; lots of other TH-cam videos, and just me paying attention through years of building structures. It works. 👍✌️
"Mango hates my guts"....lol Everything looks fantastic!
Amazing thought process. The scientist at NASA should be sold your complexed invention for future planet settlements. I wish I personally could have your mini complete environment
I’d consider building it on mars. 😂🤷🏻♂️
Consider growing the vine plants and tomatoes along the concrete path from the front of the green house to the back in the planting bed. You could connect the twine at the top but use ladders or rolling ladders on the concrete vs dealing with soil in the middle of the planting bed when you let the twine down to lower the plants so the fruit is easier to pick like they do in commercial greenhouses. That also means tall large plants like bananas can't be along concrete like you have the one in the corner-ish along one of the paths. Plant them in front of the roof support beams that are already creating a little shade. Also keep the shorter plants away from those paths so vines have the space. Have you pondered screening the windows and doors? Preventing pests from entering when they are open for cross breeze may be helpful in the future. Love the build, I could spend all day in a greenhouse like that one.
Beautiful, thank you for the update, can't wait to build my own.👍
Love it looking forward to seeing how this goes after a few more years when you have all mastered not just great
The only thing that's a concern for myself is the lack of hight of the ceiling and width of the building to flesh out the building for fruit trees and for greater floor space(but that's only for myself)!
With the way you've built everything you have done a great job and given people a really good example.
Have a ripper mate!
Check out lower and lean for cucumber and tomato trellis. It will help to avoid getting on the ladder.
Fantastic. I want one just like it!
Thanks for sharing 👍 I'm going to build one in spring
Awesome. 👍👍👍
Great Tour my friend. 💛
I would suggest adding boysenberry (if you are looking for a berry) as a great climber. My winter greenhouse is a cool not hot version in our zone3 BC north winter but this has been a huge producer for our family and uses wall space on a trellis in just the second year it is up to full production.Soooo many berries from just one plant !
I’ll check that out. Thanks for the recommendation and info. ✌️
I should mention that we got the thornless variety so it is easy to trellis and pick without gloves.
Someone was asking about a winter greenhouse and most of the people suggested your video. It was well done and informative. Thank you!
Thanks for the tour! So inspiring
I'd love to visit ...
So impressed ..this is supper prepping !! I experienced one Saskatoon winter ...it is a coooollllddd place !
Look into hoplo catfish. They might like your variable water temps better. Gorgeous design!!!