There is a few things you need to know and to ask yourself before determining if CSA is right for you. CSA stands for “Community Supported Agriculture,” and ...

Aphids are a true terror when it comes to green housing. These small soft bodied bugs can tear through a crop in a very short period if they are not managed ...

Sprung Instant Structures have developed a very good solution to greenhouse buildings, to replace the heavy and expensive glass and steel greenhouses, or the...

Sprung Structures offer many advantages over typical greenhouse structures, including weight, durability, opacity, height and air-tightness. Sprung construct...

America. CHP systems neatly address two main challenges: (1) the amount of thermal energy used by consumers is higher than generally recognized, and not usua...

A CHP system consists of an engine, generator, heat exchangers, and monitoring/control computers. (See Fig. 4) CHP systems can be designed to run on a number...

The decision of any individual building owner or manager to install a CHP system will of course be based on the specific benefits relevant to their own use. ...

Current greenhouse operations are very energy intensive, requiring supplemental heat and, in facilities with grow lights, large amounts of electricity. Cogen...

Aquaponics is the practice of growing plants and fish in conjunction so that their inputs and outputs provide a closed loop ‘ecosystem’ within the greenhouse...

Passive solar design can potentially be integrated with aquaponics and other water features to provide benefits in terms of energy reductions, air flow and c...

Particularly in northern climates, artificial lighting within greenhouses can be essential to enable 12 month growing. Until recently High Pressure Sodium (H...

In order to make smaller greenhouses self-supporting, and maximize profits in larger operations, it is necessary to maximize growing space within the greenho...