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Home Sweet Sustainable Home:
Dandelion host house, Restful Chambers, utilizes a passive solar design, photo voltaic panels, rain catchment for drinking water, and a passive solar/woodstove water heater. The orchard, vineyard, and garden are sheltered on the warm south side of the house. Left: The house on a beautiful day in mid-February. |
Year Round Sustainability: The green house, Chanting Frog, is productive year round.
Right: This basket of winter bounty was harvested in February. The lemons, tangelos, kale, rhubarb, tomatoes, and flowers were all harvested from the garden and green house in mid-winter. It is surrounded by beds of: mesclun and salad herb mix, bok choy, chinese cabbage, early rapini, parsley, cilantro, arugula, cress, gota kola AND dandelion. |
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Solar Gain... The year round green house provides a constant supply of food. The passive solar heated lap pool + hot tub provides thermal mass for the green house and great recreation!
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Attractive and Artistic Sustainability... 
One
of Dandelion Farm's goals is to prove that sustainability is not only a necessary
and responsible choice but that sustainability can be a beautiful and artistic
expression. On the farm you will find inspired sculpture, artful natural buildings, and botanical beautification everywhere. |
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