>>>THE COMPOSTING GREENHOUSE AT NEW ALCHEMY INSTITUTE:<<<
Granny, the New Alchemy Institute was quite a place - they had about 10 or so acres way up on Cape Cod. If my memory serves, John Todd founded it and they really did some neat things.
Back in the 70’s I spent a few days up there and came away with the tilapia fish that I started raising.
It’s a shame that they folded about 15 years ago, but much of their research continues to inspire...
LOL Not all hippie types were duds... (just most of them).
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I think it is a fine idea.
Not that surprising, as they used to heat the cold frames with manure, placed at the bottom, and soil over it.
The hippies did a lot, to bring back the old ways of doing things, much of what we find today comes from their efforts, as does wind and solar energy.
True some worked with it long ago, as I knew a Ben Gilbough, he and Barney Oldfield invented the hot tube, the forerunner of our sparkplugs.
Ben had in the mid 1960’s electric in his house, that was powered by a magneto, attached to a Franklin rear end and it was mounted as part of his windmill.
LOL, as I recall it from over 40 years ago, when he explained it to me, the set up had powered 2 light bulbs of 25 watts for over 50 years.