Greenhouse Projects
Sustainable Girdwood and the UAA School of Engineering are collaborating on some short-term summer-season greenhouse projects to experiment with passive solar energy in a sub-Arctic climate, and to collect data on temperature, sunlight, humidity, and other factors that affect plant growth. On June 5, 2010, volunteers assembled three of the UAA-purchased greenhouses: installed at the community garden at the Girdwood Chapel, and one of kits was installed in front of GRRdwood Pets and Green Goods. One of the greenhouse kits was later moved from the community garden to Jack Sprat restaurant.
The greenhouse kits tested (with a late start) during the 2010 growing season will be taken down in the autumn, before for the snow falls. They will be stored during the winter season, and re-assembled in spring 2011.
The greenhouse kits tested (with a late start) during the 2010 growing season will be taken down in the autumn, before for the snow falls. They will be stored during the winter season, and re-assembled in spring 2011.
Immediate Future of the Greenhouse Projects
Volunteers will be needed to disassemble the seasonal greenhouses, they will also need to be stored until they will become viable again in the spring.
It would be interesting to begin communications with other departments at UAA to make both the greenhouse and renewable energy study projects more rounded, with a greater variety of expertise and effective time to invest.
Explore involving the local elementary school, kids could learn a great deal while participating in assembling the greenhouses in early spring, and nurturing the seedlings which can be distributed community wide once the school year elapses.
It would be interesting to begin communications with other departments at UAA to make both the greenhouse and renewable energy study projects more rounded, with a greater variety of expertise and effective time to invest.
Explore involving the local elementary school, kids could learn a great deal while participating in assembling the greenhouses in early spring, and nurturing the seedlings which can be distributed community wide once the school year elapses.