Chilling Out In A Greenhouse

By Carl Williams


At no point throughout the course of its history has humanity ever been independent of plants. Early human societies were agrarian, growing crops to feed themselves and the animals which they also ate and then also used in order help grow more crops to eat. It was a whole cycle. But somewhere along the line, agriculture became more about business than immediate sustenance. People no longer grew to eat, but grew to sell. People grew for leisure, sometimes inside of a greenhouse.

The main reason that the world is not set on fire every day by the sun is because the planet has a protective gas layer, called the ozone layer. Now, ozone is made primarily of oxygen, which is the exact thing that plants give off after absorbing carbon. Now, not having plants around can make it very difficult to breathe, as people and animals and pretty much everything that evolved from the fish that grew legs and crawled out of some primordial sludge needs oxygen in order to breathe.

Now, getting back to matter of plants as food. Most people should ideally eat at least vegetation in their diet, because vegetables are packed with a lot of nutrients, the kind of nutrients that a human body needs in order to function properly. Having a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can lead to more energy, which can lead to more satisfying workouts, which can lead to improved moods, which can lead to social success.

A glasshouse is a structure made of glass over a steel frame. The glass is not heavily tinted in order to let sunlight in. Now, most people use a glasshouse in order to grow foliage in but also to still be indoors.

The main purpose of one is the grow flora at leisure. Some plant life can attract animal life, having a glass and steel structure protects the foliage from becoming food. The structure can also be used to protect plants from people. Some people take gardening really seriously, having competitions and such. A glasshouse can keep a prized plant safe from interlopers.

Having a place to garden at leisure and in peace can be therapeutic for some people. Finally, food can be grown inside of one. Growing food makes the proprietors more independent of grocery stores and the like.

Having glasshouses on a property has some benefits. It can add value to the property. Also, having a place to grow vegetables makes a property a little more self sufficient.

The fact of the matter is that larger glasshouses may soon become a necessity as arable land becomes more and more scarce. The human population is expanding and will continue to expand. As such, it is important to make there are enough resources, enough food for all the new mouths. Large, multi level glasshouses can be used for vertical farming, creating more resources that can then be distributed.

The resources that human beings need in order to survive are renewable. But they are also finite. The trick is then to find a way to renew resources faster than they can be consumed.




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