Double Duty

Adding a fermentation enterprise inside a greenhouse provides CO2 in abundance for growing vegetation. Instead of spending money on CO2 generators (which is widely practiced), generate CO2 and generate money from a beer or wine enterprise.

The waste products of fermentation is a feedstock of the greenhouse production. This is a prime example of "edge effect" and is taught heavily in the permaculture discipline.

This puts a new spin on the term "Beer Garden". Who wouldn't want to quaff some brews at night listening to a really good band inside a thriving greenhouse?

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That's an interesting concept. The fermentation of 1 pound of glucose yields about 1.6 cf of CO2. I'd have to have to crunch those numbers to see if the benefit is worth giving up green house space.

The other challenge would be temperature stability. We make kit wine, and the instructions usually say that fermentation should take place between 68-77F. If you had a green house that stayed below 68, I suppose you could add some supplemently heat to the fermentation vessel and manage it that way.

You could always brew lager beers at 48-55°F.

bro! great idea 🙂

My mushrooms also produce CO2. I’m pumping the air from my incubation tent into my plant tent.

I have CO2 sensors in both and the plant tent doesn’t get very high though. The incubation tent was at 5000ppm before I starting venting it

I wonder what the sensor would read if it was put close to the vent output.