Geodesic Greenhouse in -40C (42ft Diameter Dome) Bananas, Oranges, Plant Sales and more!
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- čas přidán 30. 04. 2024
- Touring a massive 42ft Geodesic Growing Dome kit from by Arctic Acres. This greenhouse stays in operation even in minus 40C, in gardening zone 3, in Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada. Growing oranges, bananas, lemons, limes, and a whole lot of bedding plants for their local community.
Come out to Dayna's big plant sale in Biggar, Sk. Greenhouse doors open Saturday, May 4th at 10AM. Drive into Biggar and look for the big dome greenhouse (can't miss it).
The Dome Garden: share/iq4uQ6...
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I believe these are the ones made in Pagosa Springs, Colorado and distributed in Canada by another company. I have been in these dozens of times and they are awesome. In Pagosa, where we used to live, many local citizens have them, though the company does sell them to a MUCH bigger market. They are very effective, though my good friends there just put up the 42 ft one this year and start to finish it was $100k for everything, including site work, electric, plumbing, foundation, labor, garden beds, dirt, etc. They have a large family that's now expanding to grandkids, and given the times we live in, they felt the 42ft was the best for their personal needs. It's huge and has a ton of space. With some interior trellising and also vertical growing, you and truly grow a ton of food in there. I've seen people grow figs in the domes at high altitude, zone 4.
Arctic Acres certainly makes a well built geodesic dome greenhouse klt. Shawn James at My Self Reliance had a 26' one built on his homestead and it works well for him.
I was impressed with it.
Fantastic tour & conversation! They have done the space so beautifully! Thanks for sharing! I’m sure they’ll be very successful with their sales of plants. Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦
Winderdome Resort BC approves this video! Dome On!
With ground register heat exchanger you could reduce heat loss during necessary humidity ventilation.
Have to thank Buckminster Fuller for the Geodesic dome
I really wanted to do a dome greenhouse but the heating was a big concern. However, if you're heating with an outside boiler I could do that but not with natural gas as that is not available here in the Columbia valley BC. Could do a wood heated outside boiler. I wasn't wanting a cement floor as I believe the plants are better growing in the earth as well as wanting to implement passive solar for the most part.
Thank you for the wonderful video . . . you're changing my mind about some of my preconceived notions :)
It's amazing how spacious this dome is!
Amazing. Even with 3 layers of poly, there is still plenty of sunlight getting through to allow all those plants to thrive.
Good video Dean, very beautiful greenhouse and so well managed !
What a great setup. Thanks for the tour.
Very fun to see different setups!
very nice green house, hope it goes well for them
Looks like a really nice design! Thanks for sharing!
Top vents dump most unwanted humidity out in winter when the sun shines, very manageable!
Problem is you`ll also dump valuable heat along with the humidity.
@JohnGuest45 Doesn't work how you would think, it generates more heat than u want every day of the year, you gotta vent it anyway, it's a solar generator, it works out
@@trentwszolek2387
Venting excess heat into the yard in the winter is a waste if you have the option of storing it in the ground.
It's kind of crazy to me that the house I'm currently designing with my wife that has a 70ft long greenhouse built onto the south wall (kind like an Earthship, but post-framed) has the same floor area as that one dome. $60k, though,.... that's a lot.
Keep us up to date on your progress please.
That’s amazing I been looking into more Earthship styles…
The efforts you are making to combat climate change are commendable good sir! Lol good vid
It would be amazing if it could be permitted as a residence/ greenhouse !
Looks great! Smart. Thanks. 👍👍
Super Cool ! Thank you for the video and tour
Great info
Very interesting!!
Great job yall
Love it!..
Wish I had space for something like this.
Can probably do a small one. Just dig the middle deeper down for trees.
The high school in Lacombe uses solar thermal tubes to heat the water in the fish pond which becomes the thermal mass to keep the greenhouse warm.
I’ll mention that to Trent. He’s likely doing some solar PV water heating projects like I still plan on doing. 👍
If there are fish in the pond the maximum water temperture will be limited. You also have to consider evaporation of the water which will increase the greenhouse RH% but wont increase the temperature.When the humid air meets the cooler glazing you`ll have condensation and potentially indoor rain.
There are 3 more by red deer and 1 in Rochester Alberta just went up in the last couple of years!
I had planned to get one of these years ago when we lived near Edmonton, but then we ended up moving for education. They have improved with the polycarbonate since I looked at them on the new fangled Google search way back in the olden days. I think I printed off a copy of the web page and put it in my “inspiration” file. A paper file, for the young folks… it is like a file online, but it is a space-consuming paper-filled cabinet. Lol! 😊
Awesome I need to get one.
Great
Nice video and overview. Dean you turning into the Bob Villa of green houses. 🤣
I always liked the geodesic homes. I’m currently visiting the Mississippi Gulf Coast and saw one on top of pilings. Bay St Louis was in the eye of Katrina and the new building code along the coast is 30’ above the sea level for your floor elevation.
Looks awesome much smaller scale fore me though 🥴
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What do they say about travel..? Great content Dean
How do you deal with humidity without dropping your temp?
No where near as cold at the bottom of NZ but its around 70-90%RH outside so we need to move some air
Release humidity during sunny days when you have to release heat anyways
Whoa this is awesome.
Suspect shipping costs to UK might be a tad eyewatering sadly..
I`d guess the shipping weight is at least 2 metric tonnes. There is around 1000kg in the struts and 500kg in the polycarbonate. The money must be in the polycarbonate and labour, because i cant see the dome itself (struts, hubs and pony wall) costing more than a couple of grand in materials.
@@JohnGuest45 I'm guessing therefore that it's going to be "that's a negative ghostrider"
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A sad disappointing but what an awesome setup you have.
@@Joseph_Dredd
I guess the shipping cost might look quite reasonable compared to the import VAT :)
@@JohnGuest45 Hahaha yes I'd forgotten aboutt he eye watering 20% VAT on top - thieving bastards that HMRC are!
What kind of wind can it withstand?
We live in the prairies where the wind never stops. A dome is a strong structure
Growing Domes are built to last: engineer rated up to 185km/hour wind speeds, due in part to the geodesic design and the quality building materials. Our US partner has customers who have endured storms with even higher wind speeds in places like Florida, Georgia, and other areas that experience periodic hurricanes and tornados.
Please if you could answer this question- How do you handle humidity in this greenhouse?
Venting all day in summer, and a short time in winter fixes any unwanted humidity
@@ArkopiaCZcams and the prairies are relatively quite dry
Here in Ontario in my 10 mm polycarbonate covered greenhouse it literally rains inside as we transition from day to night and night to day. I run a lot of fans blowing right across the greenhouse skin. That helps. Just wondered if you have other methods.
@theverdictisstillout Would be more of a issue with 10mm vrs 16mm tripple, it also has a R value , never cool to the touch, moving air is prob best and dehumidifiers
Love this! I have looked into this for manitoba region, and i wondered what the heating cost, or what their total cost was to build and set it up for the year?
They definitely went all out on the greenhouse; but you can do a kit however you like. It has a heating cost for sure if you want it tropical all winter, but for all they get for production it would be worth it. No exact numbers for you though. ✌️
Take a look at the 'wallipini' Geothermal partially underground greenhouse kits the elderly man in Nebraska sells. He has a video on you tube with millions of views.
Search for :
'Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow' on you tube.
A 1785 sq ft geothermal greenhouse maintains a 15 Celsius minimum temp year round .
The man in Nebraska grows citrus year round and does not heat at all (or very very minimally) in extreme winter his greenhouse.
The kit itself is 20K Canadian .
Add the digging of the geothermal canals, and digging the greenhouse itself (8 ft deep) is a total of about 70-75K Canadian .
Not cheap but better in a lot of ways than the geodesic dome, for the same amount .
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Any contact info for Dayna, i would like to visit her on Friday May 10 is her dome open for sale that day
Here’s their Facebook page to reach out: The Dome Garden: facebook.com/share/iq4uQ6pyspRMvQXU/?mibextid=LQQJ4d
@@ArkopiaCZcams thank you
Where can I buy the parts
Anywhere that sells timber, aluminum and triple wall polycarbonate. For a 42ft dome like this (excluding any door openings) you`ll need 190 struts, all less than 7ft long, 71 hubs and 120 polycarbonate panels. Base diameter 40.5ft, height 15.5ft, external surface area around 2000sq feet.
Is nice when u own your land😢
That's so cool but still to big for my yard
They start at 15ft up to 42ft
@trentwszolek2387 I saw that I live in town so 15 feet still to big my current greenhouse is 8×6
WOOD WILL ROT! Waste of time. Use anything but
Depends on what you use to protect it.
Ceader has natural oils resistant to rot, will go 20 plus years on a deck unprotected, forever under a roof
Lady said ...cedar won't rot in their lifetime
@@kelllefae3026
Bigelow Brook Farm used western red cedar for his dome and it rotted.
I'm not sure if you'd want to go to Utah to visit someone's greenhouse, but they have an extremely low tech system that works amazingly on Chads Midgley's properties... He's on Facebook, Instagram, and a little bit on CZcams
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