I just bought the "Citrus in the Snow" pdf and thought I'd share my experiences since I originally searched to find others' thoughts before I bought it and found nothing helpful.
While it does have some good information, this quote from the report best summarizes the product:
"The report was never meant to be greenhouse 'construction plans', but a documentation of his efforts overall for the past 35 years."
There is a lot of rambling and repetition of content. It is 150 pages long, but 64 pages of it are full page pictures of flowers and plants and some interior shots of his home which, while pretty, are not very helpful.
I have no doubt the author has a wealth of experience available to share, and I'm still inclined to believe his principles would work, but this particular document is 140 pages of fluff and 10 solid pages of helpful info. I do not feel I got $24 of value from it, but others may. Perhaps some of their other "for sale" publications are better.
Pam Hatfield wrote:The Cape Cod link won't work for me.
Does anyone know anything about the Citrus in the Snow guy? Someone else is selling his book now, but their listed phone number is disconnected. Clearly he is for real, there is a video on You Tube showing a small clip of a bunch of people IN the greenhouse being shown the citrus trees. There are a couple of comments that I WISH they had dealt with better; the clip is short and not informative. It would seem as though what he did was distantly related to what the ZED people do, but I have heard that he has tried three different systems which is troubling..if the first was so successful why try others?
I am trying to work out the best way to put a small commercial greenhouse (with living quarters on the east end) together which would be economically feasible in our very long cold winters here. It's really hard to find much info about geo air rather than the geothermal systems and those are WAY too expensive. The available space does not allow for the living quarters on the north side if the greenhouse is to be of any size beyond a hobby one, which is not the point.
