{"id":261259,"date":"2023-01-11T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamslivenews.com\/?p=261259"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:31:33","slug":"swedish-family-constructs-greenhouse-around-home-to-stay-warm-grow-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamslive.com\/news\/2023\/01\/swedish-family-constructs-greenhouse-around-home-to-stay-warm-grow-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish family constructs greenhouse around home to stay warm, grow food"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Swedish family in Stockholm constructs a greenhouse around their home to stay warm and grow food all year long.<\/h1>\n
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The greenhouse keeps the Swedish family warm even when it\u2019s freezing outside, and allows them to grow Mediterranean fruit in Sweden.\u00a0 Marie Granmar and Charles Sacilotto seem to live in a bubble, insulated from the bitter cold.\u00a0 Their house is built inside of a greenhouse, providing them with free heat and free food in the winter.\u00a0 Once you step into Marie and Charles\u2019 greenhouse, you will instantly be warmer.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In Stockholm, Sweden, where winter lasts 9 months out of the year, that\u2019s a huge advantage and the average temperature in Stockholm in January is below freezing.\u00a0 In fact, a normal family in Stockholm switches their heater on sometime around mid-September and doesn\u2019t turn it off again until mid-May or so, Marie says.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example at the end of January it can be 28\u00b0F outside and it can be 68\u00b0F upstairs,\u201d\u00a0 says Marie.<\/p>\n

The greenhouse allows them to decrease the number of months they need to heat their home from 9 to 6 months per year and reduces the amount of energy they use doing so. Any supplemental heat they need, that is not provided by the sun, is provided by a wood-burning stove.<\/p>\n

Marie says she is more or less prone to the winter blues many of her friends’ go through during cold weather. Seasonal affective disorder due to the cold is one common thing that occurs in the winter in cold countries.<\/p>\n

Then, during the warmest parts of the summer, the glass roof automatically opens up when it hits a certain temperature, to let the heat out so it doesn\u2019t get too hot.<\/p>\n

Creating a Mediterranean climate for themselves, they can grow any fruits and vegetables<\/h3>\n

As they have created a Mediterranean climate for themselves, they produce crops that typically aren\u2019t grown in Sweden, like figs, grapes, tomatoes, cucumbers, and herbs. Outside the glass, they have cherry and apple trees.<\/p>\n

They have also installed a rainwater collection system for free water, and a composting toilet system that provides free fertilizer for their plants. Also, the plants that thrive in their home return the favor by cleaning the air and providing more oxygen.<\/p>\n

It starts with a urine-separating toilet and uses centrifuges, cisterns, ponds, and garden beds to filter wastewater and compost the remains.<\/p>\n

For the future, the couple is working on designing a system to capture excess solar energy during the summer and store it for the winter.<\/p>\n

Charles and Marie weren\u2019t the first ones to build a house inside a greenhouse. Their idea was inspired by Swedish architect Bengt Warne<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>who built the first \u201cNaturhus<\/a><\/strong>\u201d (Nature House) in Stockholm in 1974:<\/p>\n

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