McMurdo used to have a greenhouse too - it was small and homey and lovely, in one of the cargo yards. It didn't produce nearly enough food to be useful for the

McMurdo used to have a greenhouse too - it was small and homey and lovely, in one of the cargo yards. It didn't produce nearly enough food to be useful for the summer population (except maybe fresh herbs), and from memory got torn down sometime around 2010. I wintered at Pole, and in that rather fractious winter, I think one of the worst points was when it was decided that the whole crop in the greenhouse needed to be purged. The head of maintenance had broken the Rodwell (water supply), so there was a reasonable desire to reduce water consumption. But, somehow, that morphed in to "shut down the greenhouse", despite it being a closed-loop system... That winter, we had a very comfortable reserve of fuel, and of course South Pole Station sits on a whole lot of ice. Hi John!