Ironic, everything seems to be about temperature these days. Fortunately, that means there will be plenty of gardens to take cuttings from.
To generate a Concept Nursery, you have to input the parameters manually. Because you are working on a competency project, the interstitial initiator is sandboxed and your access to the matchmaking agent will be restricted.
You select repositories based on the idea space: Climate Control, Biomimicry, ☀️ (to represent the sweltering midwestern heat). It's always a good idea to add something random in the mix to generate a more fecund idea space - you decide to add The Grateful Dead to the mix because your grandpa loved that band.