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RE: Building a Geothermal Greenhouse
Nice setup, I too have difficulty cooling our greenhouse down in the summer, so we make that our cleanout time, we run our season from Sep-June. Nothing grows well in 90+ degree temps, and with our high humidity swamp coolers are really a small bandaid on that problem. I thought about a geothermal solution as well but the size of our greenhouse makes an efficient system costly to say the least.
Where did you try to sell your basil, we got to farmer's markets around Houston and can sell it for a good price, you might look into markets in your area if you haven't already.
Anyway great post and keep it up!
I tried selling at a farmers market and to restaurants. In Tucson the summer is low season, we have a lot of snowbirds and they go up north for the summer. So, when I began to sell at the farmers market there was very little buying pressure for anything. Also, summer basil is in its peak season so the price of it is depressed.
I sell in the off season, we can't compete in the summer, everyone wants the ground grown tomatoes.