Greenhouses: The Key to Healing the Food Circle

At time when ranchers struggle to stay in business and food shelves are empty in the supermarkets, agricultural land sells for big-city residence prices and subdivisions proliferate on irrigated land. Greenhouses increase the growing season, use a minimum amount of water, increase the crop varieties that can be grown, and can be adapted to a range of sites and budgets. They can fill out the local food supply and retard the conversion of productive land to brown mini deserts. But not all greenhouses work well here…

Ed Berg is a semi-retired petroleum geologist who has morphed into a conservationist-locavore over the last fifteen years. He enjoys hiking with good dogs and eating good food with good friends.