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

A marvel of integration between humans, the built environment, and the natural world, the greenhouse, in a world of climate calamity, will prove indispensable for both home comfort and food production. The Forest Garden Greenhouse surpasses all others on the subject for technical innovation and practical design.”--Peter Bane, author of The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country, board member, Permaculture Institute of North America, and former publisher and editor, Permaculture Activist magazine“In 1997 I had the privilege of visiting Jerome Osentowski’s forest garden in Basalt, Colorado. Read, learn, apply, improve, spread, enjoy!”--Amory B. After my last visit to Jerome’s greenhouse, I came

The book is part case study of the amazing greenhouses at CRMPI and part how-to primer for anyone interested in a more integrated model for growing food and medicine in a greenhouse. But the possibilities of the indoor garden to transform our homes and our lives remain largely unrealized.  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. Osentowski’s 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. 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 conceptsintegration, multi-functions, perennials, and polyculturesthat take season extension into new and important territory. It is at this site, high on a mountaintop, where Osentowski (along with architect and design partner Michael Thompson) has been designing and building revolutionary greenhouses that utilize passive and active solar technology via what they call the “climate batte

More "fluff" than I expected Rantasia I was somewhat disappointed actually. It was lacking is real detail, though some readers will be satisfied with the story and his trek through all this.I'm giving it only '1 star' but I don't hate it. The publishers did a great job of creating more than there really was I think. To me it was more of a "How-not-to" report, than a how to report. A lot of unnecessary problems and not enough technical detail as many hoped for.Without my less positive comments, I a. Katherine O'Connor said All overview, no actual details or useful content. Save your money and get the book from the library first before deciding to purchase. The book has a lovely cover and colored photographs (which is why the review is "All overview, no actual details or useful content" according to Katherine O'Connor. Save your money and get the book from the library first before deciding to purchase. The book has a lovely cover and colored photographs (which is why the review is 2 stars instead of 1 star). Somehow, though, this book is EMPTY of all information. I would get excited about a chapter title, and after reading the chapter I wondered what just happened. Where did the time go? Did two pages stick together and I missed the content? The chapter on building an earth . stars instead of 1 star). Somehow, though, this book is EMPTY of all information. I would get excited about a chapter title, and after reading the chapter I wondered what just happened. Where did the time go? Did two pages stick together and I missed the content? The chapter on building an earth . More like a story about the greenhouse they built Log Builder Not a lot of how to. More like a story about the greenhouse they built. Had to go online to try and find information about building a greenhouse. Not sure who came up with the sub-title, but not real accurate.

Among his accomplishments is hosting the longest-running Permaculture Design Course in the world, now at twenty-nine years running. 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. Jerome’s explorations of sustainable systems and his travels for developme