[Strawbale] SB Walls for Mushroom Farm

[RT]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:19:20 -0400, Rikki Nitzkin  
<rikkinitzkin at earthlink...> wrote:

> for the mushrooms to grow he needs 75-90% Humidity inside the
> building

> how to avoid that this necessary humidity affects the walls that  
> surround it.

If the mushroom growing beds were enclosed in the micro-environment of a  
cloche then there should be minimal risk to SB in the walls and whatever  
insulation is in the ceiling.

Assuming that mushrooms don't need light, the cloches (diverted from the  
waste-stream tempered glass or polyethylene sheet draped over wire hoops)  
could also be covered with moveable insulation to retain heat within the  
cloches.

This should help to significantly reduce the amount of energy consumed to  
condition the building interior.


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