The traditional image of a gardener hunched over with a trowel, digging deep into the soil, is getting a dramatic ... Read ...

If that continues, greenhouse gases from permafrost ... For the first time in memory, ground that insulates deep Arctic permafrost simply did not freeze in winter. Polygons formed by the annual ...

Recently awarded a $25,000 grant from the University of Minnesota-Extension, the Deep Winter Greenhouse (DWG) will allow Owl Bluff Farm to continue growing herbs and greens for salads, for example, ...

Plants go dormant in the winter ... plants can survive a deep freeze. The Tillery team uses heavy plastic sheets over steel carport frames to create temporary greenhouses to protect the ...

University of Minnesota Extension is working with several farms across the state to increase the scale and effectiveness of deep winter greenhouses. Greg Schweser with the university’s regional ...

A deep winter greenhouse is a heavily insulated greenhouse designed with a steeply sloped south-facing glazing wall to capture solar heat in the daytime, which is drawn underground and stored in soil ...

In order to ensure the normal power supply of the electrical equipment in the greenhouse, the company has increased the inspection of the lines across the greenhouse, and went deep into the greenhouse ...

Deep winter greenhouses (DWG) are passive-solar greenhouses that utilize the energy from the sun as the primary source of heat. A deep winter greenhouse in production. DWGs are built in an east-west ...

is in the deep freeze of winter. It doesn’t matter because Ross has figured out a way to outsmart Mother Nature. Her little trick is something called a walipini, which translates to “warm place.” A ...

An Ottawa-area winter can ... want to be 12 feet deep. One of our interests is the amount of energy you can save. We’re working on putting numbers on that.” Lubitz sees potential with the earth-to-air ...