I built a new greenhouse last season and this will be the first season to see if my raised bed trial has any merit. I used hay bales as a base inside a three foot box. This is on the north side of the green house so I am hoping for some insulative value. I used plastic to protect the wood from rot. Mylar on the outside wall only, to reflect any heat from the greenhouse back. Corrugated drain pipe across the tops of the bales attached to a 12volt bilge vent fan. The fan sucks heated air from the greenhouse peak and blows it under the bed. All materials were repurposed from construction cast offs other than the bilge fan. Solar panels from a yard sale power the fan, hay bales were moldy and free. So there is a little over 12 inches of good
compost and soil on top of the tubes now and planted. The white green house wall that is visible is row cover behind that on the exterior wall the greenhouse film can be rolled up on hot days to allow additional venting. I do plan on trying black shade cloth at some point on that wall to see if it warms the greenhouse significantly but would still vent. Just to the right of the down tube of the vent you can see a temperature monitor that records humidity and temps and plugs into a USB port for data collection for my trial. I've used the same monitoring device in a similar position without the raised bed previously.
My chicken coop and yard are what you see through the windows on the far end.