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I am looking for books on greenhouse design and tropical food forest design.  Any recommendations would be appreciated.
 
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Even though I will never have a greenhouse, I adore Anna Edey's book Solviva.      http://www.solviva.com/
 
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The Forest Garden Greenhouse
Book by Jerome Osentowski

The Year Round Solar Greenhouse
Book by Lindsay Schiller

both good reads about passive solar greenhouses, lots of overlap and each has a different name for the same earth to air heat exchange system.  both have good concepts and examples of passive solar greenhouses but don't expect any construction plans out of either.  

 
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I liked the Four seasons harvest book.

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I'd definitely checkout Mike Oehler's The Earth Sheltered Solar Greenhouse.
 
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Highly recommmend-

The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse: Design, Construction, and Operation Paperback – February, 1980
by Bill Yanda (Author), Rick Fisher  (Author)
1 Format: Paperback
https://www.amazon.com/Food-Heat-Producing-Solar-Greenhouse/dp/0912528206

Heard of this one from
http://www.pennandcordsgarden.com/greenhouses.html
On the Farmer to Farmer podcast
 
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Also a good one.  A lot of actual construction info and some plans
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