High above the Arctic Circle we can find North America’s northernmost commercial greenhouse. Inspired by the necessity for cheaper produce and the love of fresh vegetables, Inuvik has converted a former ice hockey arena into something green.
The rink’s indoor growing season lasts from mid-May to late September, protecting the plants as they soak in 56 days of 24 hour sunlight. Each plot is built on a raised bed and includes a wide variety of produce from corn to squash. The Greenhouse also plays an educational role by teaching residents about healthy foods they would otherwise only have seen in canned or frozen forms.
It also helps residents save money. The rising price of oil has made it very expensive to transport food into the area. Therefore, many of the gardeners have started to can the produce they don’t eat during the summer. It has also attracted tourists who venture north in the summer in search of the midnight sun. They never expected it to be green.
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Great idea. Do you have tanks of water with fish living in them for fertilizer and adding moisture to the air within the growing space? I read about small geodesic dome shaped growing tents in Maine that used this idea. Moisture from the tanks, waste from the fish for fertilizer, fish for food (think they used cyclids like tilapia). Forget how they fed the fish but my guess is they did it with something they grew.