ONE CAN GROW INDOORS?
Yes, WITH VENTILATED Green Space, proper amounts of grow lighting by better, large windows along the South side of a Georgia Adobe Home* with an attached greenhouse. Even hybrid structures can do this with the Georgia Adobe Homes(TM) Wintergarden* system built as a part of a Southern Facade, as one of these added to the building, can provide you with a lot of warmth in Winter plus food production. Bees are needed for some crops, as cross pollination by insects is a must and easiest, but for tomatoes, and a few other leafy crops, they are self-pollinating, when it's under about -89 degrees F. and a breeze is allowed. Squash and many other similar crops can be paintbrush pollinated, to get a good germination too!
The rainwater comes from your cistern to your hand wash sinks, washing machine, or bathroom shower or tub, etc. and as long as that's not contaminated with oil or oil products and/or pesticides and that "GREYWATER", is reusable often many times, before final disposal.
We like the 4 times approach, such as this
Fresh water collection then:
#1 hand sink (or other Greywater), add filtering in between steps 1 & 2 as needed,
#2 used water goes to the plants in our Wintergarden, then it's filtered again before
#3 that water flushes the toilet. Then black water goes,
#4 out to the septic tank, which waters the landscape, trees etc.
With the Georgia Adobe's* plumbing arranged to allow this (covered further on the next page and further in our plan sets) an effortless flow of Greywater can be captured, filtered again and again, then finally used in the toilets flushing, so the number of uses is not limited to 4 times, if the Greywater from the plants is recycled to the plants again, then out to the septic system.
Another greater benefit is the heat, this can stay in a double Wintergarden* as the front and back walls are glassed, and with transom's added above standard windows all along the Southern side of a building, allows heat or cool to exchange between the living space and the Wintergardens or the out of doors, which will give another dimension to attaining heat exchange and keeping your food close, heated properly, all year-round. Also, when built large enough, plus with leafy plants at the front, an additional cooling effect can be helpful to the home's interior in warm seasons and with a reversed location of our designs of the Wintergarden's* placement, in yearlong hot climates this can work too.
Do we build for you? Perhaps when he structures location & size allows it, but we can teach almost anyone with a high school education to build a home online and with our telephone consultations. We offer A FREE First conversation call, just to see if we can be of help, before you commit to our services too. Call us at 706-363-6453 daily M-F 10 AM – 5 PM, to begin your greatest new home today!
FOOD - HOME GROWN, IN YOUR HOUSE
Have you considered just building a structure that has high thermal mass, Earth sheltering and a doubled greenhouse passive solar /ventilation all incorporated into its design, to solve the problem of year-round gardening?
Regardless of the scale, this is possible in most places and we have never had a structure disallowed in the following designs either, so you should find success with temperatures that are optimum for growing food and other lovely plants too.
The Georgia Adobe Home (TM) (c) 2007-26* does all of this by design, within properly sized South facing glazed structures, which are naturally illuminated enough. These buildings are built in places common to normal human habitation, (NOT THE NORTH POLE), but this would help there too, they are designed to be sheltered to survive most immediate or severe weather changes and we do find that most of our clients can keep their interior temperatures at about 65+ degrees year round and above (most averaging 70+ degrees) with proper ventilation even in Summer. This is all accomplished without adding traditional mechanical heating or cooling and drawing off the Sun and the Earth.
Year round the combined effects of a passive ventilated and passive solar, South facing fully double greenhouse (glazed) structure is amazing, certainly if & when compared to traditional conventional housing or even normal commercial growing structures. Easily, gardening can be done within the first section of our structures designs due to the glass front and all that Winter sun light. In summer as the suns axis is generally much higher in the sky, so the sun doesn't stream directly into those same windows, as it's more directly over head (Spring, Summer & most of fall).
The insulated roof protects the interior temperatures during all seasons, collects rainwater and can have passive ventilation exits to cool the structure year round, with mostly about 58 degree air coming in, through Earth tubes installed on our Northern walls. When an opening is also allowed on the South walls, just as easily a warm air current exits from convection, cooling down the insulated thermal mass and the inside of the building too. Year round this passive process keeps nearly everything mostly comfortable.
Interior to this greenhouse area, another growing space is quite possible too along the inside of the greenhouse wall and as the sun comes inside the full body of the structure heats and cools naturally, so even less hardy plants can be easily grown inside. Supplemental heating and cooling can be added to our building and due to the insulated high thermal mass of our buildings design, Georgia Adobe Homes* simply function as a battery does, storing up energy and releasing it naturally, into the structure or venting it out, when too much is stored, all by design and proper materials choices. The construction labor is no more intensive than any other well built building either and because of our designed materials being used, no loss is normally incurred during construction from weather and this allows the DIY builder, to build at their own pace.
While additional heating or cooling can still be added if required, (perhaps in less than desirable building locations), they will be very effective, as the temperature swings outside of the structure, almost can't happen inside due to our design, without some catastrophic breach of the building's envelope being left unattended. This makes thick insulated walls, floors and roofs affordable when they are made of Earth, even if those materials must be purchased, plus we design to incorporate into the Georgia Adobe* up to as much as 80% free, recycled, natural and local materials, as they are available to the DIY builder.
Do we build for you? Perhaps when he structures location & size allows it, but we can teach almost anyone with a high school education to build a home online and with our telephone consultations. We offer A FREE First conversation call, just to see if we can be of help, before you commit to our services too. Call us at 706-363-6453 daily M-F 10 AM – 5 PM, to begin your greatest new home today!
We hope this inspires your creative thinking towards Earth Sheltering and Passive Solar/Ventilation Buildings to solve your housing needs and that this allows you to live in those areas more lovely & desirable. Here’s a toast to a bountiful inside crop daily, for your year 2026 table or perhaps even for your garden to store shelves sales too.
Best Wishes,
Georgia Adobe*
http://www.georgiaadobe.com