Growing in greenhouse to survive coming ice age

Going to try and grow some herbs and vegetables during the winter.

My son is interested in building greenhouses on our property.

We're thinking of hoop or tunnel design but I'd like diy aquaponics.

Aquaponic S is fun, we tried it for a while . Kale grows good in it

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Really think aquaponics that can grow more than kale, lol, and produce high quantity on lesser land, to help become ARK for your community is really important.

Any greenhouse that helps someone be self sufficient.

We would already had them up but this year was septic tank repair year.

But we had a huge garden and do have a small sunroom greenhouse that actually can grow more than we need minus the fish.

Had tilapia for the first time this year and its my favorite fish. Anything that can be done organically, without chemicals, is good. Think an ideal mix would be talapia/cat fish, which would be a whole different kind of fish in a non muddy environment, aquaponics is a clean system, and some freshwater clams and oysters and crayfish.


How we add Freshwater Prawns / Shrimp to our Aquaponics System

We tried aquaponics for a couple years. We are beginners. We had goldfish, crawfish and perch. I need to set it up at our new home soon.

Be sure not to use all of your seed!

If we have a yellowstone explosion or similar there won't be enough sunlight to affect the seedlings hormones. So they won't make fruit or seed.

That's why you need to prep. And look like you're starving along with everybody else.

This is why population "bottlenecks"! The time will come where you will only eat what you can hunt, and it'll all be hunted out and plants won't set fruit and seed.

Check a few botany books to get the specifics.

Sprouting New Mexico chile peppers right now for my winter grow. Winter?

I want the book "Botany in a day"

I envy your spirit/balls. I'd rather just die and incarnate 200 years from now than go through this shit.

Say hi to the hot chicks for me.

Last Edited by ChrisVet on 11/03/2017 10:58 PM

If you die you may come back just a couple weeks later. Born in the cold

take it as a challenge. if you don't degenerate or stagnate, you won't lose anyhow. even the smallest personal improvement, benefits the greater whole.

It's ok , no ice age coming .

Well taken. Although I hear its about 50 years. 3D time apparently goes quick in 5D.



I know exactly what you're referring to and agree.

Or find use solar, wind, hydro, thermal energy to power led supplemental lights. Problem sovled I think.

I watched a vid once of a California family doing a complete self sustaining aquaponics eco micro farm in their side yard with chickens and water recycled using fish. It fed the neighborhood vegetables until the city shut them down.

Good source: www.buildmyowngreenhouse.com/index.aspx

There is a freeze thaw cycle on this planet.

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How I grow food year-round despite harsh winters

My high tunnel aquaponic garden was previously featured on C2C back in 2011 shortly after I had built it: [link to www.coasttocoastam.com]

I'm writing to share an update because my project has expanded to such a degree--and in such strange directions--that I think a lot of you will be fascinated by what I'm doing and will hopefully be inspired to create your own systems.

I now not only grow huge amounts of blue tilapia (more than enough to feed my family), I successfully grow lots of edible bananas, figs, and other tropical crops here in Kansas...using almost no electricity or complex technology.

My main goal has been to figure out how to grow healthy 'real' food year-round in a state with harsh winters. My first system, the one featured on C2C, accomplished this via what I call high tunnel aquaponics. Here is a brief pictorial tour showing how that system progressed from 'boring' vegetables into a rainforest burgeoning with bananas and papayas: [link to www.greenfingardens.com] . That system satisfied my goal fairly well and was fairly inexpensive ($2,500 to build myself), but it was more complicated than most folks would want to manage, so I tried to come up with a better system that more people could adopt.
Thread: How I grow food year-round despite harsh winters

I hope you do not get high wind in your area

multi wall polycarbonate panels. Keep them wee insulated.

It's already here. Started in 2014. Welcome to the new ice age.

Yes, high wind will be a bit of a problem.

That sounds awesome

People need to choose location, and if possible get some land just out of town and out of the building code areas.

Just a few farms several acres and an entire town can be fed in an emrgency.

If I was downsizing from the city, that's what I would do.

Yes, we just moved onto 5 acres in tha woods. Our county has no building codes.