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Greenhouse Design Workshop

Event Details

Time: February 6, 2016 from 9am to 5pm
Location: Longmont, Colorado
Street: 1860 Lefthand Circle, Suite E
City/Town: Longmont
Website or Map: http://theaquaponicsource.com…
Phone: 8552854252
Event Type: class
Organized By: Kari-Lise Boyer
Latest Activity: Feb 4, 2016

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Event Description

Want to grow your own fresh, nutrient dense vegetables year-round? How about growing your own bananas, lemons and guava? Learn how to do this, and much more by creating an energy-efficient, self-sustaining growing environment that feeds you and your family all year.

This full-day greenhouse immersion course will delve into smart greenhouse design. Topics include how to design a super-efficient greenhouse using passive solar strategies, tailoring your greenhouse for an aquaponics system, growing year-round in hard-to-grow climates, powering your greenhouse off-grid, growing advice and greenhouse building plans.

The course will include lunch and a tour of a commercial solar greenhouse located at The Golden Hoof Farm (designed by architect Alice Starek) pictured above. Participants will also receive building designs and plans for a backyard energy-efficient greenhouse that can be combined with an aquaponic system.

Pricing

Single person ticket: $175.00

Two Person ticket discount: $300.00 (Shared materials)

Agenda

9:00 AM to 12:00: Greenhouse Design
*Classroom instruction at The Aquaponic Source location
• Essential elements of solar greenhouse design
• Siting and orienting your greenhouse
• Choosing the glazing and building materials
• Insulating your greenhouse for year-round growth
• Naturally heating, cooling and ventilating your greenhouse
• Making a greenhouse ‘self-heating’ by using thermal mass and storing heat underground

12:00 – 1:00: Lunch (included)

1:00 – 3:30 PM: How to Build Your Greenhouse; Aquaponic Greenhouse Design
• Building the greenhouse (review of building plans)
• Powering your greenhouse: standard and off-grid options
• Aquaponic system planning and design considerations
• Growing tips and recommendations for your greenhouse

3:30 – 4:30: Tour of an off-grid commercial greenhouse. We will car pool to a nearby farm.

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Comment by Kari-Lise Boyer on January 4, 2016 at 8:46am: Hi Malika. The Greenhouse Design Workshop focuses primarily on greenhouse design while the Immersion Workshop focuses on building a home-based aquaponics system from start to finish. Hope this helps!

Warm Regards,

Kari

Comment by Malika Duke on December 30, 2015 at 9:50pm: How is this different from the event in January?

Comment by Manfred Uxamb on December 29, 2015 at 11:38pm: Hi,

Am starting with aquaponics and are ready to learn anything about it, however am in Namibia and will not be able to attend. Thanks for the invitation. Am also looking for a volunteer-partner (maybe retired and wants to visit Namibia and spent some time!).

Warm Regards.

Manfred Uxamb

muxamb@gmail.com

+267813776808

Comment by Thomas Cotton on December 29, 2015 at 3:44pm: Hi Kari-Lise,

I have my 2 aquaponic systems inside a greenhouse and am experimenting with passive solar heating this winter for the first time. I have added a set of passive solar swimming pool heaters near the ceiling of the greenhouse. I live in Texas near Austin, and early data is showing about a 6 degree increase in water temperature from the new system. While I cannot attend your workshop, I am interested in your techniques. Perhaps we can exchange ideas.

Best,

Thom