Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters bring it up in geothermal, greenhouse and vertical farming threads as a low-tech example of growing citrus in a cold climate.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Kirsten Dirksen

Topic

geothermal greenhouses

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• Completely agree. One of my favorite Kirsten Dirksen videos is about Russ Finch using geothermal energy to grow citrus in a greenhouse located near Alliance, NE. [VIDEO]

• Yes I think that would work. Check out this guy, he grows oranges in Nebraska in thermal heated greenhouses. As I recall he talks about cooling as well. He has tubes around 8 feet under the ground running around the yard. [VIDEO]

• If this interests you, I recommend checking out this video by Russ Finch, who grows citruses (orange, lemons, etc), figs, pomegranates in his sunken greenhouse in the middle of Nebraska in the snow/20F, and uses geothermal heating (long tubes buried underground) to heat it during …