The Forest Garden Greenhouse: How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis by Osentowski, Jerome

The Forest Garden Greenhouse: How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis

Now with a revolutionary new "Climate Battery" design for near-net-zero heating and cooling"Jerome Osentowski is a master...
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Author: Jerome Osentowski
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Language: English
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The Forest Garden Greenhouse: How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis by Osentowski, Jerome

The Forest Garden Greenhouse: How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis

$107.99 $59.93

The Forest Garden Greenhouse: How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis

$107.99 $59.93
Author: Jerome Osentowski
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Now with a revolutionary new "Climate Battery" design for near-net-zero heating and cooling

"Jerome Osentowski is a master of simple, elegantly frugal, eminently practical indoor gardens."--Amory Lovins

In this groundbreaking book, Jerome Osentowski, one of North America's most accomplished permaculture designers, presents a wholly new approach to a very old horticultural subject. In The Forest Garden Greenhouse, he shows how bringing the forest garden indoors is not only possible, but doable on unlikely terrain and in cold climates, using near-net-zero technology.

Different from other books on greenhouse design and management, this book advocates for an indoor agriculture using permaculture design concepts--integration, multi-functions, perennials, and polycultures--that take season extension into new and important territory.

Chapters Include:

  • Expanding the Possible with Season Extension
  • The History and Mechanics of the Climate Battery
  • Considerations for Building Your Own Greenhouse
  • Several Off-site Case Studies and more!

Osentowski, director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (CRMPI) incorporates deep, holistic permaculture design with practical common sense. His greenhouse designs, which can range from the backyard homesteader to commercial greenhouses, are completely ecological and use a simple design that traps hot and cold air and regulates it for best possible use.

With detailed design drawings, photos, and profiles of successful greenhouse projects on all scales, this inspirational manual will considerably change the conversation about greenhouse design.


Author: Jerome Osentowski
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Published: 09/24/2015
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781603584265


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/07/2015
Booklist 10/15/2015 pg. 11

About the Author
A forager and permaculturist with roots in rural Nebraska, Jerome Osentowski lives in a passive solar home he built at 7200 feet above Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley. Director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute and a permaculture designer for thirty years, he has built five greenhouses for himself and scores of others for private clients and public schools in the Rockies and beyond. He makes his living from an intensively cultivated one acre of indoor and outdoor forest garden and plant nursery, which he uses as a backdrop for intensive permaculture and greenhouse design courses. Among his accomplishments is hosting the longest-running Permaculture Design Course in the world, now at twenty-nine years running. Jerome and Michael have also been instrumental in identifying, conserving, and propagating heritage fruit trees that have survived and borne crops for over a century in the harsh environment of the Roaring Fork Valley. Jerome's explorations of sustainable systems and his travels for development projects have taken him to Baja, Nicaragua, Patagonia, Finland, Australia, and the Caribbean.

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