$1000 Greenhouse grows Oranges without heating in snow 

Jiggs our 20 year old Farm Dog in this awesome video just passed away last week. Thanks for getting this awesome footage of him!

Definitely a mad scientist. If he could team up with some kind of organizational person, the sky is the limit. Excellent gardening.

adding wood chips and grass clippings for heat ,then putting your water thermal mass next to it for all year round growing is genius!!

it's always nice to see a man who is thoroughly enthusiastic about the quality of his property

14:28 "my wife would not allow this in my house" 😂😂. Also just amazing a very smart man even has stand up arcade machines in the grow house thats a literal grow house

So great that he wants more backyard food and less supermarkets!

I like the fact that he got the plastic from nurseries near by!

Amazing urban High Desert farm from fruits to vegies. A lot to be learned here by example. The creator is a gardening Rock Star.

Wow this is one of the coolest videos I’ve seen on RU-vid..

A similar concept for cold weather citrus was done in Nebraska, and the guy dug trenches 8 feet deep for 100+ yards, put corrugated plastic drainage pipe 18" along the whole trench, and filled it in. The temp at 8ft is a constant 68 degrees, and he ran fans to suck in the air from the trenches to the greenhouse. So it cooled them in the summer and heated them in the winter. He had about 8 trenches and the green house was probably 100ft long, 40 ft wide. It worked really well for him, but this way is way less work :)

Love the budget friendly greenhouse options

Dig the green house into the ground, a geo thermal process. Good idea and he could just have high dirt wall with clear tarp over the top. However top lever will still be about ground height, get good track how. Certainly something I will consider if I get the land I’m looking for.

I respect people who just make stuff work! Being a perfectionist can make you your own worst enemy - I know so many who would max out at a single one of these greenhouses because they'd want to keep it clean and trim!

I can only imagine how awesome his yields are... no wind to loosen the blooms, and temp-controlled fruit set.

This is mind blowing. I’m in Utah with 1/3 acre and a house that’s not lived in. I bought it to garden and I could be growing year round? Things are going to get switched up with some of these methods.

More greenhouses, less super markets- love it! ❤

Wow, as someone who lived in Salt lake, this fascinates me. I've always thought that citrus needs higher humidity climates, not just warmth, to grow. I know Utah is DRY, so this is so cool to see.

Love that this is being done right here in Utah!! Way to go Chad!!

What he said at 11:14 . Yes! It would be wonderful to harvest across America year-round. "Utah-grown grapefruit" has a nice ring to it. :)

What an amazing project in central Ogden! This was so exciting to see in my feed. I buy the "lemon spinach" almost every week at the summer market on 25th Street and it was so fun to see where it actually grows!

Really innovative, adventurous, and inspiring. Thank u for featuring Chad, Stefano. And kudos to Chad going for this great idea of bale/straw heat generation and taking advantage of mulching. Terrific! indeed.

Wonderful that you're showing how to do this on a budget. Thank you! I'm so grateful you're making little places like Utah grow. Keep up the good work!

I bet this very clever man gets so much hassle from his neighbours. I'd live next door to him no problem.

Traditionally citrus in freezing areas like italy or russia would half bury the greenhouse rather than adding mulch, that way the ground heats the greenhouse without needing decomposing mulch for heat

I really love all of what's being done! Chad is doing a great service to his community, and I'm impressed! Thanks for showing everyone his farms, Stefano! I'll have to look into a Harbor Freight tool shed, and then using water barrels and wood chips. I'd probably want to investigate/add some sort of geothermal heating element by digging 4 feet deep, and running tubes under ground to circulate the air. But even without that, the price is too good for the results I've seen, and it doesn't seem like a huge piece of land is necessarily required, which is excellent for me and my little 1/4 acre lot. Thanks again!

This is an amazing conglomeration of ideas & techniques working cohesively! Definitely gave me tons of ideas for my future citrus greenhouse here in Denver. Much Love & Positivity to you 👊

Great contribution to urban farming and fruit trees in the boreal climate!!! Thankyou!

When I heard Syracuse! I had to back it up. OH MY GOSH. I'm on the east bench in Ogden. This really hits home. So impressive. One thing I learned, not to have the volcano mulch as it will encourage girdling (this can happen fast or over the next 10-20 years. Suggest to widen your mulch ring.

13:05 whoa now thats a different grow house

I found this to be a highly informative and sustainable low cost option for food production. Growing all year round in the northern hemisphere is tricky as the light casts shadows depending on one's location. He's fortunate to be having such wide open skies and year round sun to work with. His method of producing his starts is solely electricity reliant. It would be nice to find ways to grow in dark spaces, but without the costs involved with keeping the plants properly lit. Solar power options for indoor lighting would surely be more sufficient, but how practical is it long term? I'd love to know more about indoor lighting options for plants in general. LED lights verses glass bulbs... the benefits for utilizing aluminum foil like he has done. Low cost materials, but is the waste from all this truly sustainable for the planet? It's cool to take in what is working for others and I find the art of food crafting to be a constant healthy challenge to experiment and see what works for your area, soil type, etc. Very helpful video, thanks for producing it for our shared wisdom.

This is awesome! This is exactly what I'm hoping to do up here in Maine. I plan on digging below grade by a few feet. Berm u up the excavation material, then top off with green waste as I can get it. I'm not sure what to expect for input and output yet. The property is about 175 miles from my house, but it's only about 30 miles from Bangor, which is one of the bigger cities in Maine. It's a college town with some very nice food culture (restaurants). Do it should be a good outlet for whatever I grow. I'll I'm starting to build a camp so I can stay up there for longer periods of time until I move up there permanently. My question for you is: you've got at least 3 different locations. Do you have trouble with vandalism or theft or food? What do you do for security? Your greenhouses look awesome! Keep up the good work@

This was really inspiring! All that water mass is genius. I'm in the low mountains and have been wanting to grow citrus so this was the greatest video ever for me. I'm planning a new greenhouse and putting an old woodstove in it. I'm going to increase the size to accomodate a ton of water barrels. Bravo, my man!!

This is all really interesting! I think I might have grabbed a few tips for my winter greenhouse! I do not use any heat in my cold Kansas greenhouse and have been amazed at what can be done!

Thank you

Love this! Thanks for the share!

This is amazing! Thanks for sharing. I live in Minnesota and have always wanted to attempt citrus.

What a smart Chad! Very inspirational concept tbh. Glorious.

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

This is incredible! Kudos to Chad ❤

What a cool dude and a cool project. Love this

Great ideas thank you!

I’m very impressed.

Wow!!! IAbsolutely amazing!

This is so awesome brother! I am actually working on a sustainable resiliance project I al trying to do my Political Science PhD on. Great work brother!

The oranges r amazing.

I am impressed by what he has done he's done a awesome job with his greenhouses. He might want to try growing strawberries in rain gutters instead of pots and hang them just above his head. I have seen them grown that way and the fruit hang down over the side of the rain gutter to be picked easily. It is unfortunate that stone fruit and apple trees have to be replanted after 25 to 30 years. Grafted trees just don't last fore ever, speaking from experience. I was also told this by a Priest who had graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a horticultural degree. Citrus will last for years though and a orange trees grafted on Flying Dragon rootstock will keep your orange trees under 5-6 feet tall. I have a 4-5 foot 39 yr old Robinson Navel orange tree that is on a flying Dragon dwarf root stalk. The flying Dragon Dwarf rootstock unfortunately will no do the same with limes and lemons. Getting the plastic so cheaply is so great but plastic would be shattered after a couple of our wind storms. We get 90+mph wind gusts. Dragon Fruit is a cactus not a tree. I'm planning on getting a 25" x 15" lean-to greenhouse in the next couple of years. I have to wait to redo my solar system as the greenhouse placement would make clearing the roof top solar panels of snow more difficult.

Excellent video! Lots of inspirational ideas that I would like to incorporate into my next greenhouse build. I dont believe that I'll be able to pull off citrus trees though being located in Nikiski Alaska Zone 5A, but maybe I can keep cold hardy crops alive through the winter. My last greenhouse I built incorporated a six-inch batch box rocket mass heater that fed into a raised masonry bed. I was cropping vegetables before folks were planting their seedlings. Thanks again for the excellent information!!

So incredible

This is incredible... I will look into the outdoor winter gardens .. especially the oranges. I will be moving to upper California area in a few months

This is amazing!

Awesome.

trust me, this video is REAL underrated due to the global economic hardness.

I am loving this video. I'm starting school for permaculture tomorrow and would love to see an online training course on how to do this on one's property.

these experiments is soo cool

Awesome!!!

So, I think I missed a crucial part of this all. How is the temperature staying warm enough for these cirrus trees inside without heat? Was it the constant decomposition of straw and plant matter producing the heat?

That was really awesome! Keen to give something similar a try sometime!!

Incredible!

Impressive

this is crazy I love it and -2 C is not 38 F just saying 0 C is 32 F but this orchard is crazy I love this dude people neeed to do this more.

Awesome

Amazing 🍋🍊🍓🍅🌱

Nice sharing Vidio 🇲🇨🌼✋👍👍

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Be careful with the volcano mulching of the trees. Make sure it's not piling up on the trunk. If it does, over time, the bark under the mulch will get devoured and the tree will die. Make a volcano doughnut and get the same benefits and keep your trunk safe.

Love it

awesome ...

Chad respect from Czech. 👍👍

Really inspiring. I live in Maine so very interested in winter growing. How often do you change out/add to the biomass on the outside of the green houses to keep them actively composting?

6ft of top soil !!!!!!???? Amazing ❤

В Украине есть человек по фамилии Патий. Много лет назад он разработал технологию теплица-термос, в которой в условиях холодных областей Украины смог получать большие урожаи теплолюбивых фруктов. Он же выводил холодоустойчивые сорта фруктов, которые растут только в тёплых и жарких странах. In Ukraine there is a man named Patiy. Many years ago, he developed the greenhouse-thermos technology, in which he was able to get large harvests of heat-loving fruits in the conditions of cold regions of Ukraine. He also developed cold-resistant fruit varieties that grow only in warm and hot countries.

Marketing sorel as lemon spinach is so funny, i’ll try it with my kids. Also, winter strawberries are my kind of closet-grown drug. Lol

So messy and so beautiful

Nice with dragonfruit. You can buy many different variaties by just buying 1 cutting each.

Question about the greenhouse with the wall of grass clippings. Is the decomposing grass smell overpowering?

Nice!

are the citrus trees in the ground or in pots? I'm curious because my fruit trees are in cloth pots because putting them in the ground would interfere with our septic tank

Awesome Chad! What do you do for pests in the greenhouses?

3:59 you were not kidding about them selling out quickly. But great selection do you know if they ship to Canada

Just a brilliant video This farmer is ingenious Would love to try this I got a bit lost with the straw being on the outside ? Heating the greenhouse on the inside uses straw grass etc.? Thanks for the information

Ok mind blowing

Curious what he does for the warmer seasons. Does he take down the greenhouse?

My mind thinks that the thermal mass of water and outside mulch are heating the place better than the compost. But does Chad have a site to see how he is building and what’s the uses?

how do you keep the black mold off the citrus inside the greenhouses?

knowing citrus hybridizes easily, I'm curious what kind of crazy varieties he can get

Have you checked out Greenhouse in the Snow in Nebraska? So so cool!

thanks! where did you learn all this

Did you say InsAne??? 😁 Composted aerated wood chips are awesome!! Pure gold for any garden.

Okay. And how often do you have to replace the plastic, and how do you dispose of the plastic?

How is everything pollinated?

next step no heat no light

If I could figure it out - I'd like to make this work with avocado in zone 6 in indiana . . ..

I am a passive thermal greenhouse designer. This is an excellent variation on what is known as the dutch oven greenhouse. Only problem i see is that wood chip and straw mulch are becoming more and more popular so accessibility and cost increases could be an issue in the future.

Wow 😍💕 Amazing!!

Gotta love a weird setup

What is a "volcano mound" as referenced around the trees? Thank you.

Love it! Where do you get so many woodchips? How often do you replenish the woodchips?

I wonder what kinds of things can be grown at the first site without the irrigation (knowing it's a relatively dry, and very cold version of a subtropical climate). I also wonder what can be done to not need (or need less) irrigation outdoors. The overall precip is about the same as where I am but the temperature is a lot higher than here (we have a humid continental warm-summer climate with an average temperature across the year of 5°C). also if you're in greenhouses with compost running indoors, you really must wear at least a NIOSH N95 respirator. compost exhaust gases are no joke, you can get aspergillosis from that.

Hmmm I have a meyer lemon tree I have been toating back and forth... Think this would work in a Zone 7 area? (Appalachian mountain region)

What kind of poles did you use for the greenhouses? Do they stand up too heavy snowfall?