Greenhouse Project 2012

Update: October 2012. 

The green house is almost complete.  The roof is up, the beds are in.  We are lacking only to finish filling the beds with good soil and finishing the watering system.  Thank you all!

 We are slowly filling the beds with a good mix of sandy soil, black dirt, rice hulls, wood ash, worm fertilizer. 









In January 2012 we opened fundraising for a new project to build a Watershelter Greenhouse.  In one month we had raised enough to be able to build the green house. 


Why do you need a greenhouse?

• Tropical Rain quickly
• washes away topsoil
• leches away nutrients
• compacts the ground so the roots can not penetrate the hardened dirt
• Bugs are hard to control without strong pesticides
• Sun is too hot during certain seasons, shading is needed during these times.

Marilyn's goal is to try to enable the villages to see what can be grown around their own houses using greenhouses.  If this model works we can reproduce it in the village.

The greenhouse will have cement block raised growing beds, rain collection system with a slow drip watering system, opaque roofing to filter in the light but stop the rain, and a worm composting farm area for producing natural fertilizer.