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Best option for DIY greenhouse!, May 26 2008
By Lana Lambert - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: The Earth-Sheltered Solar Greenhouse Book: How to Build an Energy Free Year-Round Greenhouse (Paperback)
I have fallen in love with this book because it is the answer to most of my greenhouse problems. I was concerned about building an above ground greenhouse due to the fact that I would have to run electricity to the building to heat/cool it. The earth berm concept is so painfully smart am left wondering why more people don't practice this? This book also solved my problem of a location for vermiculture and where to house the chickens I am soon to get for the winter. In order to get a better handle on construction methods I also bought the author's other book ($50.00 and up undgerground house) but if you are a little familiar with construction you'll do fine with this one. A must buy right now due to the need for sustainable living!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
35 of 38 people found the following review helpful
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Gotta' Love Those Gophers, Nov 3 2008
By Samson - Published on Amazon.com
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Ce commentaire est de: The Earth-Sheltered Solar Greenhouse Book: How to Build an Energy Free Year-Round Greenhouse (Paperback)
I ordered this book on the recommendation of Rob Roy. By the time you finish reading this book, you will like Mike Oehler. The book is well written and very entertaining -- especially the gopher stories. While entertaining, though, there's just not a lot of meat here. The contents, without the humor, could have been boiled down to a technical paper. If the price was one third what it is, that would not bother me. I have yet to see most of this information anywhere else (but it might be I'm not looking hard enough). For the price, I expected a lot more. You gotta' spread the love to those gophers.
62 of 71 people found the following review helpful
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Intriquing concept..., Jan 24 2009
By Dogwood - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: The Earth-Sheltered Solar Greenhouse Book: How to Build an Energy Free Year-Round Greenhouse (Paperback)
The first thing that strikes me about this book is the extremely low quality of production. The second thing that grabs my attention is the $25 price tag - for a soft cover book with 230 pages and very few photos. The photos it does have are of extremely poor quality and half of them are from the 70's. On page 183, the author describes himself as "an irresponsible, frequently-intoxicated hippy". With the price he is charging for the book, be must be drinking Chateau Lafite. I have to take away 1 star for price gouging.Having said that, the author seems to be just about the only person around advocating earth-sheltered greenhouses. The concept is simple and I have to wonder why it's not more common. In fact, it's so simple that one only needs to read the article by the author on the Mother Earth News Website. I read that article and found the concept intriguing, so I bought the book, expecting some formal, in-depth research on the subject. All the evidence in the book supporting the concept is from the author's personal experience and vague "recollection". I would like to see some university or professional research on the subject. I am in the market for my first greenhouse, but I'm still undecided after reading this. Take away 1 more star for lack of formal test results.
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