Here's Why You Need a Passive Solar Greenhouse.

Year-round food production is possible - even through Alberta's harsh winters - though the use of Passive Solar Greenhouses. We believe the powerful benefits of passive solar design should be accessible to all, and everyone should have the opportunity to learn the process from the best experts in the field.
That’s why we’ve gathered some of the world’s top experts and all of the information you need in the most authoritative, comprehensive course possible on passive solar greenhouse design. In Verge Permaculture’s live, online Passive Solar Greenhouse Design Course, we teach you everything you need to conceptualize and design a cutting-edge greenhouse at any scale or level of complexity.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
1:03 Why Design a Passive Solar Greenhouse?
1:32 How Do We Do This?
2:12 We Designed an Optimized Glazing Surface
2:42 Climate Battery
3:38 How Much Food Can a Greenhouse Like This Produce?
4:14 When a Passive Solar Greenhouse Gets Built on Your Property
5:12 How Does It Compare To a Hoop House?
6:57 Why These Passive Solar Greenhouses Are Incredible
7:48 Outro

[@jamesriggi2323]

I couldn't agree with you more. We spent a large part of our life savings to build a 40x16 passive solar greenhouse into the side of our mountain property here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. We are inspired by your channel and the Chinese concept. It is an ongoing science experiment. It has gone down as low as 4 degrees Fahrenheit over the past weeks and we have been able to keep the temp above freezing without a supplemental heat source. We are very happy with that result so far but will keep tweaking. This is the first winter with the structure closed in.

[@ontherocksinthesoilmichael6739]

In my hoop house I make narrow compost piles down the center of the hoop house and it keeps it many degrees warmer and can extend my growing time by months. However it's best used for cool season crops. It takes maintaining and turning but it definitely is a dual purpose system.

[@sudoym3484]

Thank you sooo much for being so generous in sharing your knowledge with us.

[@cupbowlspoonforkknif]

I just finished your course and hope to join you for the live version. I'm going to make PSG available at lower prices than ever before. Great in depth content, thank you!

[@TheRainHarvester]

I made a passive solar in Texas. By reusing materials it was $500. Glass wall 20' long too. On my channel: tips to share.

[@DzMSE]

Дякуємо за ваші відео.❤ привіт із Вегревілю.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

"Vegrevilju" - is that Vegreville, AB? If you're new there, welcome to Canada, and it sounds like I've learned a word of Ukrainian today. I'm sure Verge will appreciate your thankfulness for this video. It's good stuff (although ultimately a promo) and I think the host is good at explaining things.

[@DzMSE]

@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 Thank you for your hospitality. I am indeed in the province of Alberta, Canada. I have been here for 2 months. And my wife and three children have been here for 10 months. The video is very interesting to me, as I am an agronomist and I participated in the construction and management of 35 hectares of greenhouses for growing peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, strawberries and designed 1.2 hectares of greenhouses for growing tomato seedlings. I manage a project to grow 500 hectares of tomatoes for the production of tomato paste. At one time, the book "Solar Vegetarian" was popular in Ukraine, describing the design of solar greenhouses. I had the honor of meeting one of the authors. Thank you again for the video. Come to Vegreville on July 5-7 for the Ukrainian Pysanka festival, we will feed you varenyky, borsch and other delicious Ukrainian dishes. It is a pity that such useful videos have so few views. Хай благословить Вас Бог.

[@JeremySpidle]

I designed mine with many of the same features, and at least one this *doesn't* have : radiant floor cooling using a remote swimming pool to receive the 'waste' heat in the summer months.

[@cupbowlspoonforkknif]

It actually does have a cooling feature but I'm glad you found something that works! What he calls the subterranean heating and cooling system provides underground heat in the winter and cooling in the summer. He doesn't really go into any detail here but does in other videos.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

How do you irrigate in your greenhouse? Do you have a collection system, and how does that water get to your bountiful little plant pets?

[@lrrerh8090]

Very cool. I am curious how long it would take to break even and actually start earning?

[@cupbowlspoonforkknif]

Check out his video with Curtis Stone. It's a for profit greenhouse used for micro greens.

[@sachamm]

I'm super interested in the "battery". How much energy can it usefully store?

[@ggauth]

I'm going to build a passive solar greenhouse this year but we only have 40" of soil before flatrock limestone bedrock. Because of that we have a really high water table. I'm thinking the earth battery will cause moisture/mold issues if used. Thoughts?

[@belieftransformation]

Do you show how to turn an existing poly greenhouse into a passive solar one?

[@ryansoo4000]

My main concern with your design is pumping warm moist air underground. How do you prevent mold from forming in the underground cavities? Do you have any way of monitoring that area to insure that moisture isn't condensing on the cavity surfaces and causing mold and bacteria growth and if it is, how would you clean out those underground cavities (or pipes) should mold occur?

[@cupbowlspoonforkknif]

The underground pipe is perforated so that the condensed water drains into the soil

[@ryansoo4000]

Ok. How do you prevent Radon gas from the soil from entering the pipe, and then the greenhouse? Also, what if you have a high water table and underground water enters the pipe?@@cupbowlspoonforkknif

[@JohnGuest45]

@@cupbowlspoonforkknif Its called drainage tubing for a reason :) The perforations are designed to let water in, not out. If the water drained out it wouldnt be able to carry excess water away :) An expert in these systems would recommend cutting a straight slit partway ( just a few mm) through the corrugations and installing the tube with the slit facing down to ensure all of the condensate drains out. Without this modification, you`ll have water collecting in the bottom of every single corrugation which will have a negative effect on the heating performance.

[@iowaclassic]

Since you can attach a multipurpose building to it I would assume you could also attach a home? Or no?

[@deepfuckingabundance]

For sure!

[@brianibraun3057]

wow

[@abhijnaatman1874]

Ohhhh, it’s only 20,000$. Everyone should get one. What else does everyone need? Let’s see, solar panels, root cellar, solar wall, solar oven, cook stove, and that’s just in the last few videos. Everyone needs to get everything you have and will continue to purchase. Wonderful.

[@99suspects]

All you need is owning your own home and a spare million dollar slush fund....Brilliant

[@stephensmith7995]

Most lithium for solar batteries are mined by what is essentially slaves in horrible conditions so ill pass. Geothermal greenhouses are the way to go. I love the idea, but until solar doesn't require lithium I'm passing. It's also terrible for the environment once those batteries end up in a landfill.

[@alainprostbis]

that s a misunderstanding. A climate battery refers to a network of tubes underground where air from the greenhouse is pumped and heat is exchanged. in the winter time the cold air will come back heated to the greenhouse, and in the summertime, hot air will journey through the tubes underground and come out colder.