Greenhouse Planning for Hardiness Zone 7 Small Farm

I am in the process of building up the homestead and, currently, I am planning to build 2 greenhouses.  One will be a smaller greenhouse located very near the house and attached to the side of our garage/extra apartment.  A larger one will be out in our back field but within permaculture zone 2.  In the larger one, I am still planning the ultimate purpose and it may be a traditional greenhouse for my zone OR I may go crazy and make it a butterfly garden / more tropical greenhouse.

Anyway, I am looking for a good resource on the science of greenhouses.  I can find a TON of stuff in how to build one DIY in various formats or some aspects of attaining sustainable maintenance.  However, I am hoping that there is a book out there that walking through how to plan a greenhouse,  maintain a greenhouse, and how to plan / manage the ideal conditions for it to operate.  Also, I would like to overlay permaculture principles.  As I know everyone here can appreciate, I want to make a TON of mistakes on paper while I have the time versus buying a "kit" or the like.  I live in TN, which is hardiness zone 7.  My favorite form of learning is by sitting down with a dense book but I'll take anything you all got!  

In my research, these come up a lot.  I have not read any of these YET but they are sitting in my amazon wish list currently.  :)  I'd be interested in any feedback on these (outside of the amazon reviews):

Greenhouse Gardener's Companion by Shane Smith

The Greenhouse Gardener's Manual by Roger Marshall

The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener by Niki Jabbour - This one seems to be a bit more about cold framing than large GH.

The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower's Handbook by Andrew Mefferd

The Forest Garden Greenhouse by Jerome Osentoswski

As a bonus, my wife has dreamed of owning a dome home for a very long time.  Due to the tyranny of pragmatism, we are building a more conventional home (aiming for net-zero!).  As a fallback plan for the dream, I thought the larger greenhouse could be a dome like this:

 

I'd be interested in feedback in that approach.  My main issue with this approach is that it seems like rainwater capture would be much more complicated.  Otherwise, I feel like I could make it work.  The water passive heater is interesting in the video (approx 8 mins).

EDIT:  Right after posting this, I found this thread!!  https://permies.com/t/95121/Growing-Spaces-Growing-Dome

Anyway, I am still thinking out loud here.  Would you have any resources that you would nudge me to?  Any greehouse mastery courses / videos that I could consider?

Thanks so much!

Dome Houses
I have had experience with these structures.
A big issue is keeping them waterproof and they may be more suited to dry climates only.
Do you think you maybe overloading on books for the subject?
There are a couple of videos on this site that explain the principles some used with their green houses, they may be a good start.

Nathan, years ago we bought the brackets needed to put the boards together to build a dome building.

If I remember correctly we were going to make a storage building and thought the domes were cute.

That dome never got built as we just keep trying to figure out how to do it.

I wonder if Jim Guinn who started that other thread ever made his?  I don't see any posts.

I hope you will start a project thread so the forum can follow along with your build from start to finish.

It sounds like you are in the process of building a home.  That would also make a good project thread.

Do you think you maybe overloading on books for the subject?

You make a good point, lol.  I tend to be a voracious reader and, since I am tied a desk job, it is a way that I dream a bit between development projects.  :)  I will certainly check out the videos and I can report back on the books too.  Wrapping up The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse right now.  It's pretty fantastic for someone who knows NOTHING about the process.

If I remember correctly we were going to make a storage building and thought the domes were cute.

That dome never got built as we just keep trying to figure out how to do it.

THIS.  I am afraid that I am going to end up in this pattern of putting a ton of thought into it but never quite executing it.  

It sounds like you are in the process of building a home.  That would also make a good project thread.

Really?  Somehow the thought never occurred to me.  I'll think it over see about putting some time into it.  That could be fun!