Despite an extremely harsh winter this past year, Roosevelt Island residents Ron Davidson, Kyoko Abe and Jennifer Dunning grew fresh vegetables at their Roosevelt Island Community Garden plots by using solar technology together with traditional Japanese rituals and practices to heat their “Hoop House”.
Image Of Roosevelt Island Community Garden Hoop House From You Tube Video According to Eco Watch:
Looking to grow more of your own food year-round? A hoop house could be the answer.
A hoop house is a series of large hoops or bowsmade of metal, plastic pipe or woodcovered with a layer of heavy greenhouse plastic. The plastic is stretched tight and fastened to baseboards with strips of wood, metal or wire. A hoop house is heated by the sun and cooled by the wind. Hoop houses can be erected over a patch of ground or rows of raised beds. They can cost as little as a hundred dollars or as much as a couple thousand dollars…
Mr. Davidson reports that the Roosevelt Island Hoop House: produced vegetables that:
taste astonishingly good and fresh.
Photographer Kurt Wittman shares 
Image From Kurt Wittman these photos 
Image From Kurt Wittman of the Hoop House 
Image From Kurt Wittman this past winter 
Image From Kurt Wittman at the Roosevelt Island Community Garden. I spoke with Mr. Davidson last March 31 as he was taking the Hoop House down. Here’s what he had to say.
Mr. Wittman shows us the winter Hoop House before it was taken down and speaks with Ms. Abe, who responds in Japanese, and Mr. Davidson. The audio with Mr. Davidson is not the best because of the wind but understandable.
Looking forward to the Roosevelt Island Hoop House for next winter and learning about future innovative plans for the Roosevelt Island Community Garden from Mr. Davidson.