How does one apply permaculture to a hoop house?

Today was my first day as the garden director for a small native tribe in Alaska (Old Harbor, near Kodiak). Lot's of rain, not much snow, gusts of high wind, pretty much just rocks, some acidic silt on the ground so soil must be created, and moderate sunlight. We already have a hoop house and are planning to get another. My big question is:

How does one apply permaculture to a hoop house? by the way - a hoop house is essentially a green house that plants on the ground rather than on tables

Smaller questions:
Currently there are rows of raised beds which individuals can use, but they get neglected. I would love to see these raised beds gone and try to go for a more natural system honoring patterns - any ideas?

Would chickens work in a hoop house? how?

Any tips to keep the compost from stinking it up too much?

Should we keep the compost outside or inside during the winter?

I would love links to good sites on hoop house/greenhouse permaculture. SW Alaska permaculture would be good too.

Any ideas are a help! Thanks!

My chicken house is a hoop house, made of cattle panels. It works well. Some grass and other things grow weakly in there, but its mainly mulched down in pine needles and wood chips. It doesn't stink too much, but they don't spend the days in there, only nights. What if you created a modular system where you had multiple hoop houses that you would let the chickens into periodically to eat bugs and plants?

Checkout this blogposti found. about a hoophouse system. Its the chicken on a small scale with it in a cage inside the hoophouse.

A great alternative to traditional raised beds is Hugelkultur mounds. Also, compost could be left outside but the composting process will halt during the cold weather. You could keep it inside a hoop house though. Compost should not be stinky. If it is, there is probably either an issue with what you're putting in it or the mix of brown to green is off.

I have found the Forest Garden Greenhouse book to be pretty informative.

http://www.chelseagreen.com/the-forest-garden-greenhouse


It is highly permaculturecentric, and it is also very nuts and bolts, not just difficult to apply theory.

The basic idea is annualized thermal inertia by storing heat and humidity in the soil underneath the greenhouse in the summer, to heat it (maybe) all winter long. He designs it for the thermal mass to do 85-90% of the work in the winter time. And when it gets super cold, and the thermal mass isn't enough, he has a wood fired sauna in/attached to the greenhouse. There's that whole stacking function thing. When it gets really cold, you just have to go fire up the sauna and bake yourself several times every winter.

Thanks guys! These are great:)

Anna Edey's Solviva has a lot of neat ideas about greenhouses: http://www.solviva.com/

Also, Eliot Coleman's New Organic Grower and Four Season Harvest talk a lot about hoop houses: http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/