Locally made Greenhouses
Posted on July 07th, 2009 in Climate Change
I have lately seen gradual uptake of greenhouses as a preferred way of growing horticultural crops. Even in my village.
A green house is defined on Wikipedia as
a structure with a glass or plastic roof and frequently glass or plastic walls; it heats up because incoming solar radiation from the sun warms plants, soil, and other things inside the building faster than heat can escape the structure. Air warmed by the heat from hot interior surfaces is retained in the building by the roof and wall.
All greenhouses make use of the greenhouse effect. This is very well explained both here and here.
For anyone interested in building their own greenhouse, please read Chris Pratt’s article – How to Build an Inexpensive Greenhouse.
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This post has 4 comments
July 17th, 2009
Hi,
I am the Founding Trustee/CEO of Tiania Trust, a registered public charity working in Tigania, Kenya. We have mobilized farmers in this semiarid area who have registered self help groups and opened bank accounts ready to start growing crops in greenhouses using harvested rainwater and storm water with drip irrigation technology.As a starting point, we have recruited 10 primary schools and 240 families into the project, hoping that we shall manage to mobilize enough finances for the project.This will be a first in this country but we hope to succeed so as to get them out of the poverty trap.We should be grateful if would like to collaborate with us , particularly in the design and construction of the greenhouses. We intend to use our greenhouse also for water harvesting.Thanks.
September 30th, 2009
Hi,
Do you have green house. i want to know the different size you have.
October 26th, 2009
Hi All
I am also very interested to know more about greehouse. Any body with more resources on this?
October 17th, 2009
Goodman,
i hope this finds you well. i think we share the same ambition to help the communities around where we are from. this idea has been ringing in my head for the last four months. formaly this beging my research on how to impliment the same project.kindly share notes with me on how to do the same. a response from you would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Felix.