DIY - How I built the Plus4Zones greenhouse, the Sun Terrace and other unheated greenhouses
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- The construction of an unheated greenhouse that enhances the local climate zone by 4 zones, of a sun terrace with grapevines, and of other unheated greenhouses…
I can't thank you enough for sharing all of your experiments and experience! You've given the rest of us a wonderful head start by allowing us to learn from everything you've tried! I know this video gave me some better options than I was planning! Back to the drawing board to make some changes! I'm glad someone found this video and got it spreading around finally too!
Thank you so much for your kind thoughts and words, which touched my heart profoundly!
@@HumanWisdom I too want to Thank you for your diligence and sharing your passion and what you’ve learned. For those of us without the building skill, have you any plans one could obtain to replicate a greenhouse like this? I live in the Interior of Alaska, with very similar weather conditions, being self sufficient here is critical. Again, many thanks, be well!
@@kathleendroege4515 Thank you very much for your kind note! So far, I have built 'experimental' unheated greenhouses and tried to continuously improve their thermal efficiency. Last summer we have built an improved 'prototype' of such a greenhouse in cooperation with an organic farmer in Quebec, Canada. In the process, we encountered a few aspects that allow a few more improvements... In the meantime, I have also tried a couple of new experiments with some encouraging results, which give hope for an even better thermal performance... This is to say that I do not think we have 'exhausted' all/most possibilities... and I feel a bit unease to present a set of drawings and say 'This is the way to do it'... knowing that chances are that after not too long we may be able to come up with an even better performing solution... These continuous experiments in the last couple of years also took so much time that I was not able to put together and publish several updated videos for which I gathered the necessary imagery...
Yet, so far, I have answered every single request that I received from people who wanted to build right away a greenhouse based on what we know now... So in case you are in this situation, you can send me an email with some info about your specific goal and info, and I will be glad to answer. My email address is hw@humanwisdom.ca
These trees don’t need the bees to produce fruits?
psychologist, hard worker, philosopher, gardener, greetings from Slovakia.
Greetings from Canada!
Better add humanitarian to the list! ❤️👏
Yes, I couldn't find an expression.
This is one of the most educational resources on innovative and sustainable greenhouse systems available. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing discovery
Thank you very much! With pleasure!
This is one of the most relevant and inspiring videos I have seen in many many years. As a gardener in an Ontario zone 5a area I share your desire to produce fruit that is not hardy in my zone. You, my friend, have a new devout follower. I will look forward to learning more about your amazing experiments. Many thumbs up!
Thank you so much for your heartwarming note! I wish you to surround yourself soon by the fruit trees and grapevines that you enjoy the most!
THIS was a beautiful journey to watch. Thank you for giving me more ideas for gardening. Beautiful work!
Thank you! I wish you best success in your green project!
Outstanding work 🌞❤️🌱
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Thank you so much for all you hard work!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! :)
Oh, your incredible deeds and will forces has brought consciousness and inspiration to the world, Thank you!!!
Thank you very much for your humbling words! I sincerely dream of the moment when more and more people will start growing locally and offer their families delicious and organic fruits, beyond local climatic limitations...
Imagine railway buildings and industrial areas.
I do approve 👍 you are ready for mission on Mars!:))))
It is very pleasant to see the positive achievements of hard working people, thanks for sharing!
@@gwenwade6059 Sorry I missed your comment! You are absolutely right!
@@ixoraroxi Thank you so much!
Thank you for that content! We need more people like you.
With pleasure! I think you are touching a very important aspect here, and I thank you for that! I deeply believe there actually ARE many, many passionate and creative people dedicated to and appreciative of plants, trees and vines that are generously providing our vital food… And as more and more of these people will see that we can extend our growing season and expand the varieties of fruits that we can grow in a 'low tech', ecologic and sustainable manner in climates considered so far 'less than ideal' for growing food... we will be amazed by the food abundance these wonderful people will generate everywhere they live...
I'm happy that you didn't give up when you were told you wouldn't be able to grow what you wanted. Nothing is impossible you just have to find a way to make it work. Good for you sir for being persistent.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for making this video and sharing. This is what the internet is best for!
Thank you very much!
Good set-up and good use of existing structures.
Smart !
Thank you! There are so many others waiting for us all to turn them into fruitful buildings
@@HumanWisdom awesome video. How old were the cherry trees when bought them? Also where did you get them from? any help would be great! Thanks
Might be the best thing Ive watched on TH-cam.
Thank you, you are very kind!
I'm a big greenhouse growing advocate. When you can control the growing environment great production will follow.
You are absolutely right!
I'm age 80 and over the last 20 yrs created a 1 of a kind tropical jungle all around my house
in Bal Harbour-MB, Fl. I sure wish I had the skill, knowledge and energy to create what this video shows because we are fresh fruit aficionados and if I were 40 yrs younger this would be my fantasy wish fulfillment. BRAVO!
Thank you for your note and congratulations for the tropical jungle you have created! I would love to see some pictures and learn from your experience if you would like to kindly share some. Here is my email address: hw@humanwisdom.ca . Best regards from Montreal, Canada!
Awesome! I am inspired now to grow coffee and cacao in Arkansas, with just a few enhancements to your work.
Thank you! I am glad you found this useful for your green project and wish you best success!
Hello neighbor also from Arkansas. Thinking of oranges and grapefruits
Please, if you do this, let us know how it goes!
@@lorirode-off763 will do! It's going to take a few years.
@@FelonyVideos Enjoy!! I am in South Dakota and have started 11 avocado trees and three lemon trees.
Yes, it's taking years!
This year is, hopefully, the construction of the subsurface greenhouse.
Building big wooden things in the basement? Your wife must be a Saint!! Hahaha. I enjoyed this very much, cheers from Oz! 🦘
I get a feeling you are on her side... :) Actually she was out of the country at that moment in a wonderful charitable mission...
@@HumanWisdom Beside every great man is a better Women. We are both very lucky for that!
I love the homemade laminated wood arches, and the lean to greanhouse, and the mini one with the planting shelves on the outside...great stuff.
Thank you!
Thank you for doing this! I have taken a few screenshots of the different designs. I haven't much space but have desire to use what i have to do better. If we dont try to do better then sadly the situation WILL be dire . May i add a virtual hug to you and your good wife.
Thank you so much for your kind message and warm hug! You are so right - it would be a pity not to try doing the best we can with what we have, in domain / project that we like a lot! I wish you best success! Dan
I'm not sure if I'm more impressed with your carpentry skills or your work ethic. I've built some decks, and a three foot deep hole for the posts is several hours of work, and that doesn't come close to some of that trench work. And those laminated arched rafters? I'm not positive I know a carpenter that could put those together. This is a great inspiration! (And my young son wanted to send his congratulations for your fruit.)
Thank you very much for your kind message! I think what MOTIVATES us is in large part the key to our successes… My best regards to your son!
@@HumanWisdom Ditto on the laminated rafters. If I had those skills....
@@shodospring I am preparing an video on the laminated arches.
@@HumanWisdom Awesome! I do have a shop...
@@shodospring Great! With a son passionate about fruit trees, a shop and the motivation to build a great green project you are on your way for something that you and your family will cheer and be proud of!
Wonderful!! Just brilliant, God so simple, yet so,so powerful! If only our government cared that much, this could drastically change our lives. Thanks so much for sharing 💝
Thank you! You are so right!
finally someone who talk about "greenhouse in winter" in an actually cold climate
Thank you.
@@HumanWisdom Do you have experience in growing citrus using similar methods and are you french?
@@zachariedube1796 I am currently working on a 'subtropical' unheated greenhouse... I was born and raised in Romania and moved to Canada about 30 years ago.
@@HumanWisdom if you can pull this off this is a game changer
@@zachariedube1796 I am holding my breath... but I am confident we can do it.
When living in Idaho I visited a friend's house that had a glass lean to like yours with metal arches. There was a tiny wood stove inside of it. Her home was brick. She had a low vent going into her home and a high one. A small fire in that stove heated her greenhouse at night and her entire large home. It was amazing as the greenhouse wasn't that large. It was truly an amazing set up.
I imagine it was a great indoor space... Would you remember what plants and trees she had inside this greenhouse?
That's encouraging! I'm in Canada too and have a dream of growing fruit trees as well. Now I know it's possible. Thanks for the tips!
I am glad you found this information useful.
You are a Superhuman ! Can't believe anybody can build so much at your age !!
Thank you, you are very kind! The 'secret' is in what motivates you...
A decade of experience condensed into 30 minutes. Invaluable!
Thank you very much!
I have a spot I set aside for a greenhouse and have been paralyzed with indecision on how. You have inspired me with your hard earned experimentation and lessons learned! Thank-you
East Kootenays BC
I am very glad to hear that you now have a better image of your green project. I noticed that quite a lot of people tend to 'jump' into building or buying a greenhouse before clearly defining their 'green goals' and implicitly what kind of a greenhouse they should build/buy... And often times they end up being disappointed... I wish you best success and enjoyment of your project!
You are one determined fella, this was wonderful, thank you.
Thank you!
You Sir, are a Genius! Thank God for You!
You are extremely kind Sir! I am just a simple man who adores these beautiful and generous fruit trees and grapevines, and also has a lot of motivation coming from deep personal reasons...
This is amazing! The time you took to follow your dream really is remarkable. There needs to be more people like you on this earth 🌎
Thank you very much for your kind words! Actually I deeply believe there are an IMMENSE number of wonderful people on Earth... It's just that somehow our talents and creativity have been diverted away from great human goals... I am convinced that we can all turn the current challenge into a powerful MOTIVATION to reconsider our destiny on this planet and create an unprecedented abundance of healthy food - as a great start into a new Human Era!
@@HumanWisdom Too True!
This is one of the best videos on the subject matter I have ever watched. Thank you for posting it. I, myself am trying to retrofit my 8x8ft greenhouse to store my semi-tropical trees next winter. I live in USDA Zone 8+ where we seldom get snow, but quite often the temp drop unexpectedly. The figs and persimmons grow well in the ground without protection. However, unlike the trees you are growing which are deciduous and do require chilling hours, the sapotes, jaboticabas, the icecream trees, and the sugar apples do not. My fear is that even if the temps inside are high enough not to kill them, the trees will still sustain too much stress to the point where it will stunt their growth.
Thank you very much! I am glad to hear about your green project - in zone 8 you can create a real fruit paradise! I understand your concern but, although I did not build yet a P4Z greenhouse in a warmer climate than zone 4 and 5, I have no doubt there would be no issues.
In the last couple of years I did a couple of small experiments and managed to pass the winter with some hardier citrus plants which kept all their leaves while outside we had minimum winter temperatures between -20 and -30 Celsius (-4 and -22F) for an extended period of time of 3-4 months.
The other very good thing is the lack of the wind factor in the greenhouse - which makes a huge positive difference for the plants and trees inside.
I wish you all the best in all your future green projects!
Nicely done. Appreciate you sharing all your hard work and efforts here.
Thank you!
@@HumanWisdom We are looking into building something here in western Washington off grid. Your video is apropos to our research.
@@MrRain-hk4zi I am very glad to hear about your green project and wish you best success!
A man with vision, guts, courage..... thank you
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Thank you for never giving up. You are truly a great pioneer and Inspirational Human being and a Humanitarian. Your wife is Awesome for encouraging your dream as well.
Thank you very much for your kind and humbling words!
Sir you have earned my respect. Not only you, but the whole family who helped this become possible. Simply welldone.
Thank you very much for your kind note! Congratulations for your YT channel - I just liked and subscribed.
@@HumanWisdom Thank you so much for subscribing. It all came from bottom of my heart as I know how much work and effort you have put in to dig only one of those projects let alone everything else. Well done again 🙏
@@lifeleaves1268 Thank you!
I'd like to add my appreciation to those whom have already expressed it. This is valuable information for us all to use. You have saved us all years of work - Thank you for your generous willingness to share.
Thank you very much for your kind words! The more of us will start growing locally delicious and organic fruits and vegetables for their families and communities, the more we will all enjoy and benefit from a healthier lifestyle.
You'll certainly be one of the forefathers of the so much needed ecological sustainable organic. zero-emmitting carbon. future's society that must come.
Hats off to you Mr. Congrats 👏👏
Thank you very much for your humbling words. I sincerely dream of the moment when more and more people will start growing and offering their families and communities an abundance of delicious and 100% organic fruits, beyond local climatic limitations...
You are a true genius, my friend! Well done for showing everyone that this is possible. Respect from the UK!
Thank you very much, you are very kind! Now we have to start growing and enjoying these fruits everywhere, beyond our local climate limitations...
I live in North Dakota USA. After seeing your sun terrace I’m absolutely mesmerized and would LOVE something similar! Your greenhouses are genius! Thank you for the video!
Thank you!
This a a university level lecture, amazing quality of information. Merci beaucoup!
Thank you for your heartwarming and humbling note! Avec grand plaisir!
This was amazing! I am also in zone 4 in Alberta!
In Alberta you also have more sun than anywhere else in Canada, so you can be quite successful.
This is true! My next step is buying land. Our current house doesn’t have a yard lol
Brovo! Very well done. It brings to mind another video I watched a couple of years ago of a man in the mid west of America who dug his green house half way in the ground and only had his light coming from one side and the roof. I believe he also had black pvc pipe running in the ground making the air warmer inside his green house but was able to grow citrus year round. I do love the idea of using the outside walls as a growing short season veggies. To bad a city like Detroit with all their empty building didn't try something like this and become a food city.
It's not too late! You never know who might invest in an idea like that if someone were to propose and promote the idea!
I saw that guy too, I think maybe on Justin Rhodes tour
Thank you! You are referring to the admirable Mr. Russ Finch from Nebraska. I watched a few videos about his air-geothermal greenhouse a couple of years ago. He is one of the most inspiring 'green men' I had the chance to see on TH-cam and I profoundly admire him for his achievements!
That said, our experimental fruit greenhouse does not have any underground geothermal pipes. One reason for that is the cost, the other one is that I prefer to have total independence from electricity, which at times can stop... usually during the toughest weather conditions, which can expose the plants and trees...
With regards to Detroit, as '30DayRide' mentioned below, now that more and more people are learning that we can grow a large variety of delicious and organic fruits beyond our local climate limitations, in an affordable and ecologic manner, the chance of someone from Detroit may give it a try and inspire many other people in the City increases...
@@HumanWisdom Yes I think that was the gentleman!
You have so many wonderful ideas and I love greenhouses and gardening year round, I'd love to have more information on how to get started when you don't have a lot of money. So inspirational and challenging to be sure but if you can do it in Canada, it can be done anywhere. Great job, I'm glad to have found you on utube.
Thank you Sharon! It's interesting that you mentioned this! Last November I realized that some people may not have enough money or space to build a greenhouse… and I built an affordable gardening module for cold climates. I will prepare a video as soon as I will have the first results at the end of winter.
@@HumanWisdom Really excited for that!
@@TheBorgCollective I intended to prepare that video at the beginning of summer, but this year got very busy with more and more interesting 'green projects'... and I had to delay the finalization of a few new videos. I am sure I will be able to do that in the next couple of months.
wow....that's love.
I started planting last year for the first time in my life. Turns out i had a green thumb and nothing i planted or cared for died.
This is such fantastic information. I'm really thankful for all of this.
I am very glad to hear about your 'green success' and wish you to enjoy it fully!
I like how upfront and honest you are about your journey.
If you want to get fancy you can rename the underground greenhouse, as it's functionally an orangery.
Thank you!
Amazing work! Love what you have done and discovered!!! I will have to try this in Poland 🇵🇱
Thank you! I wish you best success in your green project!
thank you for inspiring me, this makes me proud of what i love
You are so right - growing our own food, both delicious and healthy, is something to be proud of!
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. I am also in Montreal . This really inspire me
With pleasure!
The planting shelves on the outside is genius! Thx for the post.
Thank you! With pleasure.
You are genius :) Thank you so much for your advices, it's much appreciated :)
Thank you for your kind note! I am very glad you found this information useful.
AMAZING. Thank you for sharing!! Looking forward to more videos
Thank you!
Every home in the north should have a sunterrace like this connected. I live in Minnesota. Sunrooms or sunterraces or greenhouses are extremely rare. It's crazy.
I totally agree with you! And I think the best way to gradually improve this is through a nice illustrative personal example. Imagine what your family, friends and neighbors would feel if you would invite them for a coffee and a chat on the new sun terrace that you have just built... How many of them would consider doing something similar...?
@@HumanWisdom I totally agree. I have plans drawn up for hopefully when I am able to buy or build my own home. A greenhouse should be considered part of the home as far as I'm concerned. We have a place here called the como zoo conservatory and it's very popular...yet almost noby even those with the means decided to biuld one. It stunns me honestly.
@@katiegreene3960 I wish you to buy or build you home the way you dream and I am sure you will do wonders with it!
@@HumanWisdom thank you. Hopefully in 2-3 years. Ps I sent you an email.
Where are you? I'm south of the Cities. And it's true; Ohio had lots more sunrooms - here they seem to think of them as ways to lose heat.
Wow! This made me cry. EXCELLENT Job! Such hard work, skill, thinking, evaluating and perseverance. You are an Inspiration. Bravo! 🙌
Thank you so much for your kind words, which warmed my heart!
It seems you have improved on the very expensive and very impractical Conservatory and even made it affordable. Amazing. Simply amazing. My deepest gratitude to you for sharing what you have learned so others may benefit.
Thank you for your kind thoughts!
Thank you for sharing the fruits of your labor! This is an absolute good and inspiring video! The labour of love & goodness which gave such a wealth of information is truly heroic! We must use what you have generously shared as a model to produce for ourselves clean food that nourishes not only ourselves, but also our communities! Thank you ever so much! Blessings to you and your family. 🥰👏❤️🙏
Thank you so much for your heartwarming note! You are so right, now that we know we can go way beyond our local climate limitations and grow a large variety of healthy fruits in a simple and ecologic manner nothing should stop us from doing that as soon as possible in all parts of the world… It only depends on us... and I am hopeful that we will see those wonderful fruits quite soon!
I am hugely impressed by your capacity for work. Thank you for recording your experiments so well and for sharing your findings. You're right. It is not just desirable to produce high-quality food in many locations. It is vital if we are to ensure the availability of food to everyone. We have seen what happens when there are "supply chain problems". If a wide variety of food is produced locally, those problems become much less serious or go away completely.
You are an inspiration.
Thank you very much for your note. The more people will think and act like you, the better life will be for all of us everywhere on Earth...
Wow! Excellent video. You are a rare breed sir... 💚💚💚
Thank you! You are very kind!
Amazing!! I admire your ingenuity! And thank you for the many tips and to share your experience. Truly wonderful!!
Thank you very much!
I am stunned at your patience for detail. If I could give this two thumbs up I would.
Thank you so much!
@@HumanWisdom thank YOU so much for showing me such an uplifting video. While I do not even have a greenhouse currently. I would love to grow avocados in Southern Ontario.
Thank you for your wonderful work and the generosity of spirit - such abundance that requires no additional heat source to thrive in the cold winter months
With sincere pleasure!
Amazing and inspiring video. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Thank you! Greetings from Montreal!
This was so inspirational. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. With pleasure.
Thank you for sharing, I’m starting my off grid journey in the North, and a greenhouse is near the top of the list. I’m in the same climate zone in ON.
With pleasure! I wish you best success and enjoyment in your off grid journey and green project!
What a wonderful video! So very inspiring! Thank you from Phoenix AZ.
Thank you! Hello from Montreal!
Great presentation, I especially like the arched laminated lean to greenhouse. I have an old barn that would be well suited to this sort of experiment (zone 5) Thanks for the ideas and best of luck on your future projects.
Thank you! I wish you best success in your barn-greenhouse project!
BEAUTIFUL ~thank you so much. This cheered me up this Feb. 14th. 2021
What a pleasure - you are warming my heart!
Honestly I started watching this intending to learn a bit by skipping through, but before I knew it I watched it beginning to end. I love your enthusiasm, hard work, and your drive that allows you to not fear failure, or if you do fear it to overcome that fear. Great video!
Thank you very much!
Extremely generous research! Very motivational and nice to see a fellow Canadian doing something great. Cheers!
Thank you very much for your kind note!
@@HumanWisdom np! Keep up the great work!
12 minutes in and already very excited. Thank you so much.
Recently purchased 25 acres in New York zone five, I’ve been contemplating running similar experiments, this information is extremely valuable.
Thank you! I am very glad to hear about your green project and wish you best success and enjoyment!
Your work is incredible! You and your wife and family/friends have accomplished so much. What a joy to look at. Congratulations and thank you for sharing!
Thank you very much!
Thank you so much for so generously sharing your hard-won knowledge!
With pleasure!
Thank you so much, Human Wisdom 🍒 inventive, astonishing & hard won, your fruits of labor 🍇
Thank you very much!
Thank you so much for sharing your greenhouse building experience! Also, thanks to everyone who has shared their great ideas in the comments! I'm in zone 7 and have a strong desire to grow most of our own food from heirloom (non-GMO) seeds without chemicals throughout the year. Your indoor orchard was especially inspiring, because I love apricots and they are frequently eliminated by late frost. I appreciate the opportunity to learn to build a greenhouse that will make this possible. Love and blessings to all! Namaste
Thank you for your kind note! In zone 7, with a thermal efficient unheated greenhouse you can create a real 'fruit paradise' and provide healthy food year-round to your family as you wisely set up your goal. I wish you best success and enjoyment of your green project!
Gotta Luv Apricots, they are also cancer killers! Quebecers are very independent and great Growers!
What an incredible mind you have and such tenacity.
Thank you for your generous heart.
So much here that is so beneficial.
Thank you 😊
Thank you very much for your kind words. Now that we know that we can grow a lot of fruits beyond our local climate limitations in an affordable and sustainable manner let's all do our best to fully benefit.
This is such a great study. So very well done. I was just thinking that growing fruit trees as espalier would make it easier for an indoor orchard, because you can easily control the height, and have easier access for maintenance.
Thank you. You are right, growing in espalier could be a good solution, as practically it is for grapevines.
Wow, beautiful project.
Thank you.
wow nice sharing... good luck to your experimental farm
Thank you!
videos like this and people like you are the best inspiration for the change we need and for a lot of people, myself included. thank you for sharing your year long expierence
Thank you very much for your kind and humbling words!
Wow! I discovered your video yesterday, and I walked around in a happy trance the whole day. I couldn’t wait to show it to my husband when he came home from work. Your greenhouse is truly a vision from God. We live in the Black Hills of South Dakota, about a mile high in elevation, with a zone between 4 and 5. We have lived here for a year and grew a small vegetable garden this summer with limited success. The cold weather just came too early. We had previously lived in western Colorado and then Arizona, where we could have beautiful fruit trees and very productive gardens. I was very disappointed with our garden this summer! We are currently living in an apartment with a very small yard, and we are hoping to buy a house with some land soon. So we have been looking into ways to build an inexpensive greenhouse (when we get our land) that could extend the growing season a bit. When I watched your video it was like a beautiful dream that couldn’t possibly be true, yet it was! The scenes of your barn-greenhouse are absolutely enchanting. I’ve never seen such beauty indoors! It is truly a blessing from God to discover that we people in the northern climates can grow our own beautiful fruits and have many more months of vegetables. The Black Hills has hundreds of old barns dotting the hillsides, abandoned and falling apart, how incredible that would be to turn them all into fruit orchards! We have been concerned for many years with the centralization of farming and our dependence on supermarkets. The corporate grown food is unhealthy and people have lost their connection with the land and growing things, also unhealthy. I believe your vision is of extreme importance at this moment in time, and I agree that we must waste no time in creating local food supplies. Many experts are saying that food shortages are just around the corner. Another thing your film shows is how beautiful life can be when we focus on our own spot on the planet - our village - and create our food independence. And with your vision and innovations even people in the colder climates can do this! I loved your other video, “growing organic fruits,” very beautiful, and I loved how you used the Adagio from Beethoven’s Emperor for the background. I am a concert pianist (who loves gardening) and I performed the Emperor a couple of years ago in Arizona. The Adagio is divine music, for me it expresses the Peace of God. A perfect accompaniment for your divine vision. May we contact you by email next year when we hopefully have land and can start building a greenhouse? My husband is a good builder, but I’m sure we’ll have questions. I’m hoping we can find land with an old barn!! All the land here has hillsides, so a hillside greenhouse might be another possibility. Sorry for the very long comment, but I am so inspired by your vision, and I do think it is an extremely important vision at this time in our history, and surely a gift from God through you. I hope lots of people start building these greenhouses, I’m sure it would then start catching on to many other people. This idea could save many people from starvation. Thank you for all your work in creating this and giving your vision to us! Thank you thank you Multumesc 😊 Kathryn
Dear Kathryn, thank you very much for your deeply touching note! It is a profound joy to see people like you who look at the possibility of growing locally a wide variety of fruits in colder climates in such an enthusiastic and constructive manner. I am very glad to hear about your plan to build a green project and I will be happy to answer any questions that you and your husband may have - here is my email address: hw@humanwisdom.ca
I think it is a great chance to have so many older barns in your region that could be converted in organic indoor orchards - and I am sure your initiative to start such a project will inspire many other people.
It was a sincere pleasure to read your admirable words about the sublime Adagio - particularly coming from a passionate concert pianist like yourself!
As I mentioned in another note below, during the last couple of years I have done some further experiments trying to see how far we can 'push' the thermal efficiency of an unheated greenhouse and if we can build a year-round greenhouse in which we could grow subtropical fruits in zone 4/5 - and the preliminary results are very encouraging. I have been so busy with these projects that I did not have the time to put together the information and images for an update video, but I will be working on that in the next few weeks.
I wish you and your husband best success and enjoyment in your future green project! Cu sincera bucurie! Dan
My uncle had outdoor fruit orchards. Commercial operation. As I watched your video I kept reflecting on how he'd combat frost
with everything from smudge pots lit with a small flame thrower from a moving tractor, wind machines and sprinklers.
He was able to prevent frost damage to the fruit with overhead watering that would ice up the trees but not allow frostbite.
I was in grade school and focused on riding on the tractor and lighting smudge pots...
The key point he made was that water releases a lot of energy to freeze. The idea I've been turning over in my mind would
be to set up 6 0r 7 large black barrels in there, to grab warmth and release it during the night.
they'd have to release a lot of thermal units before they would start to freeze.
At the very least they could be handy watering stations. If the barrels were partly buried and used the insulation of the dirt I'd imagine
that a very mild convection would take place too. In any case your video inspired and took me down a happy memory lane. Thank you!
Thumbs up on a great video.
My admiration for your uncle for his passion and dedication to fruit trees! I imagine how dear are those memories to you.
Thank you for taking the time to document your journey! This is very important for our futures
This information is exactly what I needed! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! God Bless!
With pleasure! I am very glad you found this information useful.
Absolutely excellent!
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing, it’s very inspiring, I plan to give a try in the UK in a small scale!
I am very glad to hear that and I wish you best success!
Excellent information! You and your wife are incredible people. Hardworking & resourceful to say the least. The determination it took to follow through with all of your experimentation is such a joy to have watched. Thank you for sharing that journey & information with us. What I took away from the information in your video was that we can grow whatever we like & extend our season in this northern hemisphere by 2-4 months. That is just enough time to grow ample food to preserve it for the harshest months of the year. You have inspired me to begin my own experimentation with erecting a greenhouse! Thank you!
Thank you so much for your kind words! We wish you best success and enjoyment of your own green project and we are sure you will become an inspiring example to many other people in your region!
huge respect for your work! well done!
Thank you!
You have had an amazing journey! Thank you for sharing your experiment and what you have learned along the way.
I am in zone 3B in the upper Laurentides, so you give me hope to expand my garden!
Thank you for your note! In zone 3b, with a thermal efficient unheated greenhouse you can grow all the fruits we are growing in our zone 4. I wish you best success! If you will ever have any specific questions I will be happy to answer.
fantastic video! great information shared.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for documenting your journey!
Thank you! I feel I was blessed to live this journey and I thought it worth sharing it...
I like one of the closing sentiments that this greenhouse should be iterated upon rather than duplicated.
I am glad if you found something useful.
Thank you for sharing your hard work. What you have accomplished is simply amazing and will help many others not only in cold climates but warmer climates as well. You should be very proud of all of these greenhouses. Again thank you for sharing all of your valuable experience and growing trials. Best Regards Andy
Andy, thank you very much for your touching note - much appreciated! Dan
great vid brada. thanks for all the info
Thank you! With pleasure!
Excellent video. Thank you for documenting all of this and taking the time to compile it.
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Thank you for sharing your beautiful experience!
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Thank you so much for sharing this GREAT Video.
Thank you, you are very kind!
Great work! Massive respect for digging those yourself!!!
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your invaluable knowledge and experience. Such a blessing!
With pleasure! I am very glad you found this information useful.
Well done! Bravo on the incredible endeavors. Low-Tech Organic shows how possible it can be and not turn into an energy consumption monster. Thank you for thinking outside the box and that forethought to follow through. Thank you to your wife and brother-in-law for lending their physical and emotional support, as well as, the neighbor with the water access idea. I am in Central Texas and will find my way to this method of food Management. Hats off to all the hard work and documents.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful note! I assume you probably are in climate zone 7 or 8. If that is the case, with a thermal efficient unheated greenhouse you can create a real 'fruit paradise' there! I wish you best success and enjoyment of your green venture!
This is nothing short of amazing, I am in awe. Your dedication is admirable. I’m waiting to see the new and improved greenhouse!
Thank you very much for your kind message! I don't like to talk 'in advance' but based on a few on-going experiments I would dare to say there are some promising things in front of us...
You are an incredibly hard worker!
Thank you for sharing!
Thank you. With pleasure!
Amazing inspiration! What a great determination and what a good team!
Thank you! Yes, we have been blessed...
Thank you for your hard work and generosity to share to everyone!
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