[CottonBall]

I'm in CO at over 9,000 feet with an air-freezing index of about 2,500 (snows in July, sometimes, 110 mph wind loads in building codes, 120 for commercial), and we'll try to get the first of several greenhouses up before next winter. ...did some testing with a smaller one a couple of years ago, while designing the next one for low cost, more durability and more warmth (both passive and active solar). Oh...and there are bears.

Keep me aprised of how it goes. We will be going ot our cabin when TSHTF at 7200 feet. This summer, I will be experimenting with gardening for the first time there - and visiting a friend a lot who has been gardening up there for years. ;) Bears? Will they eat my produce? We've had one eat a snowmobile seat two years in a row now...

[familyop]

"Keep me aprised of how it goes."

I will.

"We will be going ot our cabin when TSHTF at 7200 feet. "

That's wise, IMO. If enough people go rural again, that will lighten some of the economic and logistical pressures on all. I say welcome. There's more than enough "open space" in areas like mine for sure. Only the most spoiled and selfish people play the First Settler Syndrome games (regulating against others building on their own properties), and they are downright un-American with their putsches against property rights and dishonest efforts against local competitors (builders' rackets).

And yes, bear do love vegetable gardens--especially in treed areas. They can eat just about anything that we eat and more. ...haven't had any problem with bears breaking into my own test gardens, yet, though. I'll try to design a stand-alone solar panel/battery electric fence system for that, but it might end-up being a little too expensive.