âWe are striving to start the British season earlier, without using gas fuelled greenhousesâ
As one of the biggest soft fruit producers in the United Kingdom, the team at Hall Hunter is always looking for new ways of growing and innovations that grow their market and sustain their business. Heating their tunnels with a river source heat pump matches these goals perfectly.
âThis heat exchange has very low impact in terms of carbon footprint and it reduces food miles at the same time,â says Brent Lawson, managing director with Hall Hunter. âBy extending our season at the start and at the end, we can produce 800 tonnes of  strawberries at a time which normally have been imported from Spain in the spring and Holland in the autumn.â
There s more to building an outhouse in Maine than just digging a hole
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March 11, 2021, 5:07 PM·5 min read
Mar. 11 There was a time when all it took to construct an outdoor privy in Maine was a shovel, some wood and a bit of sweat. Not anymore. Modern privies or outhouses, as they are more commonly known are subject to many of the same state and municipal plumbing codes as indoor toilets.
The basic design and purpose of an outhouse, however, has stayed the same. An outhouse is a simple four-walled structure with a wooden floor, a roof, a door and a bench seat with a hole cut into it. That hole empties into a pit latrine dug to hold human waste.