How and Why a Climate Battery Works
A December 2023 Country Folks Grower Q&A on how a climate battery works, built around Jim Schultz’s own excavation, manifolds, and heat exchange tubing beneath a 30-by-72-foot high tunnel at Red Shirt Farm.
Systems of Resilience: Energy-Efficient Advances Power a Vegetable Farm
A 2022 Acres U.S.A. feature on the climate battery, thermal curtains, and SolaWrap covering behind Red Shirt Farm’s most energy-efficient high tunnel — and how the system pays for itself while cutting propane use and carbon emissions.
Turning Over Some New Leafs: A Greenhouse Photo Essay
A short Berkshire Eagle photo essay on Red Shirt Farm’s climate battery greenhouse — Jim Schultz prepping a lettuce bed and farm crew harvesting Asian mixed greens, mid-winter.