![]() (30 x 100), relies on passive solar greenhouse design. Much of this is possible given the energy-efficient greenhouse design. ![]() Passive Solar Greenhouse Design + GAHT® System There’s not many places in the US you can have a farm to table banana smoothie year-round. All in all the Golden Hoof looks and operates more like a farm in the 1900s than a farm of today, except that instead of limited crops they are producing bananas, lemons, figs… Their growing style may follow the Slow Food mantra, but it is anything but limited. Their animals are fed pre-comsumer kitchen scraps from local restaurants and have an immense amount of space to roam. The meat is raised in a far superior manner to the “organic” or “naturally raised” products found in the grocery store. ![]() The greenhouse is a small component of the Starek’s dyanmic farm: Alice and her husband Karel produce sustainably raised pork, lamb and eggs. Suffice to say, this is anything but your ordinary commercial greenhouse. The floor of the greenhouse is not concrete, but instead a green blanket of clover which takes in nitrogen from the air and returns it to the soil. Taller trees are planted to create a canopy above, while shade tolerant varieties grow underneath mimicking the layers of a real tropical forest. The understory is filled with the more standard greenhouse offerings like kale, chard, mustard greens and tomatoes. Step into the solar greenhouse at Golden Hoof Farm in Boulder CO and you’re greeted not by a monoculture of mass-produced greens or flowers but by a forest of fruit trees - guava, avocado, mango, banana, lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit, starfruit, dragon fruit, pineapple, pomegranate, passionfruit, cinnamon and allspice. Growing bananas and guava, this off-grid greenhouse is anything but your typical commercial greenhouse
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