Cold Climate Greenhouse build looking for volunteers

Greetings All!

My homestead is located in the Ottawa Valley, Ont, Canada.  We are zone 4b (most of the time).  

We are looking for 1 or 2 additional persons to join our crew in the building of a Cold Climate Passive Solar Greenhouse with Earth Battery.   If anyone has a better way to format the title,...please do so.

We will brake ground as soon a weather permits.  The goal is to have the structure "weather tight" by Fall.  Our objective is to create a zone 8 micro climate that could provide year round cultivation in mild winters, and a minimum of 9 months cultivation during harsh winters.

We are installing an Earth Battery, that will include a passive solar air heater, and a passive solar water heater into the system.
Our thermal mass/walls are of stone, + daub, + lime mortar, and counter sunk, not quite a Walipini but close.
The greenhouse will be of Post & Beam and/ or Timber Frame construction, either way the lumber is to be milled on site.
Glazing is of 16 mm polycarbonate.
We will be incorporating venting, duct fans, thermal blankets, solar panels, rain water collection systems, earth tubes, etc.,.

If you have an interest in any one, or all of these sustainable methods/systems, we invite you to join us.  
This is not a payed offer, but we can put you up, as well as feed you.  
If your "Creature Comforts" exceed the basics, then you can pay me.
If you are looking for a documented Apprenticeship/internship set up, I can accommodate as I am PDC PRI Certified, although a negotiated investment is required.

For more info/details PM me through this site.  
Email communication reserved for serious inquiries only.

Cheers!  K

How did your project go?  I would love to see pictures.  I’m a year or 3 away from trying my hand at this in grow zone 3 or 2b, depending on who you ask.  2b, or not 2b…

Hi Woodruff.

Thanks for the inquiry.  

The project still goes; working on the footings/foundation which is probably the most labour intensive part of the build.  
Not much for pics with so much to do.  Visitors sometimes take pics and maybe send them to me, but not often.

Care to take a working holiday and learn to mix and use lime mortar?  Oh, and haul rock, lots and lots of rock.

K