Regional Growing Season Extended Significantly

Tapping into geothermal energy sources, use of high tunnels and other season extenders are very widespread. Also, hardier crop varieties have been developed. Low-cost green houses are used by some, sometimes heated by waste heat from electricity generation or as part of a centralized thermal heat generation scheme. Many of these approaches come from farmers in Quebec that have been working these issues for a long time. Warmer climate is also a factor. Some of these projects aim for availability of produce throughout the full year, which opens up major institutional markets like the schools.