ABOUT ME
My objective in designing and developing the Biodome Garden is an effort to help others enjoy a healthful, environmentally-friendly way of life. I became involved in creating an effective passive solar greenhouse system back in 1980, while pursuing an interest in growing vegetables year-around that would use a minimum of water. Subsequently, I developed my Biodome Garden, which includes an 850-gallon aquaculture system for heat absorption, radiation and humidification. Because it has been so successful, friends encouraged me to write a book so others could build their own unit, and from that book a person I have never met entered my design in an international competition and it won. Currently, the City of Ottawa, Canada, has a larger model of my Biodome Garden in their City Park. However, I'm not a scientist and I make no claims beyond what worked for me. I also wrote the book for the layman and tried to make it as user friendly as possible, using many photos and diagrams to illustrate the step-by-step procedure for building a Biodome Garden. In addition, I live in the log house in the picture below, and it sits in the middle of thirty acres of evergreen forests in the foothills of Oregon's Coast range. My only source of water is rain water, which is collected off the roof and flows into a 10,000-gallon underground cistern.
My objective in designing and developing the Biodome Garden is an effort to help others enjoy a healthful, environmentally-friendly way of life. I became involved in creating an effective passive solar greenhouse system back in 1980, while pursuing an interest in growing vegetables year-around that would use a minimum of water. Subsequently, I developed my Biodome Garden, which includes an 850-gallon aquaculture system for heat absorption, radiation and humidification. Because it has been so successful, friends encouraged me to write a book so others could build their own unit, and from that book a person I have never met entered my design in an international competition and it won. Currently, the City of Ottawa, Canada, has a larger model of my Biodome Garden in their City Park. However, I'm not a scientist and I make no claims beyond what worked for me. I also wrote the book for the layman and tried to make it as user friendly as possible, using many photos and diagrams to illustrate the step-by-step procedure for building a Biodome Garden. In addition, I live in the log house in the picture below, and it sits in the middle of thirty acres of evergreen forests in the foothills of Oregon's Coast range. My only source of water is rain water, which is collected off the roof and flows into a 10,000-gallon underground cistern.
