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Fw: Books on designing greenhouses...

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Also see the Nearing's book on their pit greenhouse, and Coleman's Four
Season Harvest......
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Teuton <fteuton@total.net>
To: Organic Gardening Discussion List <OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: Books on designing greenhouses...


>
>The latest Whole Earth Catalog recommends:
>
>The Complete Book of the Greenhouse
>
>by Ian G. Walls, Ward Lock UK, 1993; 256 pp. ISBN 0-7063-7186-0
>
>I have The Solar Greenhouse Book, James C. McCullagh, Rodale Press, 1978,
>ISBN 0-87857-198-1, which is an interesting read.
>
>Eliot Coleman discusses greenhouses in his The New Organic Grower, ISBN
>0-930031-75-X,  and includes bibliographical references.  I have seen on
>Gardening Naturally, his and Barbara Damrosch's TV show, his latest
>greenhouse which is glazed with plastic, and seems to be quite a good
setup.
>
>A propos of other discussions here, I serendipitously ecountered the
>following quote, which one finds at the beginning of Coleman's work:
>
>"One of the intangible legacies the Shakers left to the world is their
>demonstration that it is possible to for man to create the environment and
>the way of life he wants, _if he wants it enough_.  Man _can_ choose.
>
>The Shakers were practical idealists. They did not dream vaguely of
>conditions they would like to see realized; they went to work to make these
>conditions an actuality.
>
>They wasted no time raging against competitive society, nor in complaining
>bitterly that they had no power to change it; instead they built a domain
of
>their own, where they could arrange things to their own liking."
>
>---Marguerite Fellows Melcher, *The Shaker Venture*
>
>Frank---another book on lean to and attached greenhouse is Sunwings---it's
>Canadian but I don't have it in front of me, as I recall it is a good
>read---RealGoods should have stuff up to date on this, too.
>


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