The "greenhouse" which is approx. 25' deep and 125' long and attached to the south side of the manufacturing building is intended to act as a "multi-functional" greenhouse. Heat from outside solar panels will be pulled from the panels, in through indoor ducts then pushed down into 10 miles of tubing under the manufacturing/office portion of the building. Once the air circulates through the tubing, the air and whatever heat is left in the air will exhaust itself out into the greenhouse. The heat for the greenhouse will be supplied by heat stored in a sand mass under the floor of the greenhouse that has absorbed the remaining heat from the solar panel's hot air. Windows are to be added for ventilation and cooling control.

June 2008:

7 plant beds are built and soil has been added. Sizes of the planting beds are 4' x 10' and 4' x 4'. The soil in the planters is ~12" deep. The soil mixture used consists of 1/3 horse manurue, 1/3 "super soil" and 1/3 sandy HUG field soil.

Using our soil sampling kit, I ran a test on the finished mix that was put into the planting beds. The ph is ~6.5 with all other nutrients at a pretty good level, according to the kit's pamphlet explanation of the readings.

During June, patches of Alfalfa clover and rye are planted in the planting beds, watered as needed and left to grow as a mini green manure cover crop. The goal here is to mix, fertilize and start building humus in the soil for preparation to plant a fall planting of edible plants and vegetables.