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Plastic Bottle Greenhouse Construction - 2008

One of our latest projects here at Blue Rock Station is construction of a new plastic bottle greenhouse.  

This really cool structure is made using a rammed earth

foundation (tires) incorporates over 1000 2-liter plastic soft drink bottles as its walls, a straw bale north wall as well as two 55-gallon rain barrels (courtesy of Little Square Farm) into the north wall.  

Our thanks to the students from Clark Montessori High School for their help in constructing this building.  We hope they learned as much from us as we learned from them.  

Now available, a booklet that gives you all the step-by-step to build your own really cool Plastic Bottle Greenhouse

A video are under development on this project - but in the meantime you can sign up for our fall workshop....

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

-    Gail Sheehy

This 36-page illustrated book includes the following chapters:

• The Logic Behind Plastic Bottle Greenhouses
• Creating your design
• Site Preparation & Drainage
• Wind Issues
• Orientation
• Insulation
• Passive Solar Concepts
• Thermal Mass Concepts
• What materials you will need
• How to prepare, cut and place the bottles
• Detailed drawings for a 10’ x 10’ sample greenhouse project
• Water Capturing
• Finishing the Interior

Many of our publications are now available in electronic format (PDF).  This saves on printing costs and more importantly - on shipping (and we pass those savings on to you).  Green living at its best.  

You can now get the information you need anywhere in the world (usually e-mailed to you the same day you order) - with no shipping costs and no trees necessary.  What a deal!

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