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Build A $300 Underground Greenhouse “Walipini” That Grows Food Year Round

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– Build A $300 Underground Greenhouse “Walipini” That Grows Food Year Round:

DIY plans, videos, infographic, and info about the Walipini, an underground greenhouse that lets you grow year round. You can build it for less than $300!!

Homesteaders, farmers, and backyard gardeners often use various methods to extend the growing season, especially in colder climates.

They often use cold frames, hoop houses, black plastic, frost covers, and greenhouses to give their crops a boost or a head start for the coming growing season. They’re also used to hold off the fall frost for a few more days or sometimes weeks.

Greenhouses are the largest and most permanent of these structures. They are usually expensive to construct and require a lot of additional heat to extend the season much into the winter.

The Walipini…Walawhat?

Read moreBuild A $300 Underground Greenhouse “Walipini” That Grows Food Year Round

Farming On A Rooftop (National Geographic – Video)

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– Farming on a Rooftop (National Geographic):

In New York City, farming on a rooftop is not just an idea. Brooklyn Grange farms more than two and a half acres of rooftops in Brooklyn and Queens, and then sells what it produces to New Yorkers. A special soil mixture is used to minimize weight on the roofs and allow rapid drainage during heavy downpours. The farmed rooftops also house chickens and an apiary.

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The Lazy Gardener (Video)

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Beautiful garden!

Video is in Swiss-German.

The garden is located 1000 meters above sea level.

He uses raised beds to harvest several times a year.

He uses a ‘Pendelhacke’ (pendulum garden hoe) with a copper alloy (bronze, copper) according to Viktor Schauberger:

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Pendelhacke

– Pendelhacke “HYDRA” Kupfer Bronze Gartenwerkzeug nach Viktor Schauberger PKS Hochwertig, langlebig, ästhetisch, funktional

Here is a spade made from copper:

– Edles Gartenwerkzeug: Spaten Orion aus massiver Kupferlegierung nach Viktor Schauberger, PKS, gebogener, unbehandelter Stiel aus haltbarem Eschenholz, 118 cm lang, lange Lebensdauer, für gesunden Boden

Books about and from Viktor Schauberger:

– The Water Wizard: The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water

– Nature as Teacher: New Principles in the Working of Nature (Ecotechnology)

– Hidden Nature: The Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger

– Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy


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