The south end of the kitchen is almost like a greenhouse, with all the windows facing every direction except north.
/johnny
I regret that I did not design a bigger window in the kitchen when I was working on the house plans, but at least I did put 5 feet of window in the utility room.
We did make the patio footing such that we could add on a room or greenhouse to the back, so we are seriously considering it among other things such as a cistern or root cellar/storage shed etc.