Pete Van Horn

Hello everyone! Just wanted to share a progress video of my Earthships greenhouse room! Have a lot of different things going right now and started everything from seed December 26th. Mostly greens in the planter cell then I have tomatoes and cucumbers in 5 gallon hanging buckets and a bunch of different starts that are going to be planted outside and into my other greenhouse mudroom as they get bigger.

It's been a long time for this moment of growing food in the house even though it's not a lot it feels very fulfilling!

-Pete

Those are called "cat spikes". It's a product you can buy to keep cats out of the planter cell. I've thought of pretty much everything to deter my cat but this seems to be the only thing that really works 100 percent of the time. Great product and just cut out little circles for all my starts I transplanted.

2 weeks in everything is doing great and will post some progress pictures soon!

Hey everyone!

Here's short Timelapse of the planter cell I made in the front "greenhouse" room of my Earthship. It's made out of cans Earthship style and is 25 ft long by 2 ft wide. I just transplanted 22 different types of greens into it this past week. Long time coming and excited to share future pictures of it!

Enjoy!

Thanks! Yeah next time I'll try and get some closer shots too... wasn't too bad... used a few shims here and there. Mostly just used little 1x2 stops we ripped down on the tops and bottoms and the sides will get filled in later.

Sounds exciting but I do agree with Josh. Lots of times water laws are in place where you're not legally allowed to use water for growing... and only for domestic use. Also indeed there can be other "funny" things that aren't out in the open where a relator can maybe shed some light on. Specifically permitting and land use stuff... sometimes lands cheap but the process of starting a build can be very expensive. Either way good luck!

Hey fellow Permies! Here's a cool video I just made on my friend and neighbor Thomas's Earthship build.... it's a mudroom entry way we are building out of repurposed windows. Hope everyone likes it/gets some ideas out of the video!

If you like Earthship and alternative build content follow our channel! Owner Builders Unite!

Thanks
-Pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Uk9RqY9WIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Uk9RqY9WI

Hey Ned

Thanks for watching and good questions/comments about the work parties.

It certainly doesn't hurt to be good at throwing parties but not necessary... luckily me and Matt live in a pretty cool small community where there's a lot of alternative building going on. Everything from Earthships, Strawbales, Earthbags, rammed Earth, just to name a few. So being around others in a small area all doing similar things kinda help you work with each other and live closely verses more populated areas let alone cites where you might not even know your neighbors. Earthship Biotecture and Michael Reynolds who founded Earthships in Taos, NM (just 2 hours away from us) had a similar situation over the years. A lot of people wanting to build alternatively in small rural areas...

We all work jobs and have regular schedules and lives as well... but there's always the weekends! Some people like to go out to dinner or watch sports with there friends and others like to live off grid and live a life style that let's you help your crazy neighbors build alternative houses! haha I guess you gotta be crazy to want to pound all those tires anyways!

Either way thanks for the thoughtful question and hope some of my explanation helps! You're certainly right though... a lot of people aren't in positions to have "work parties" with friends doing similar things so for that I feel extremely grateful.

-Pete

Hey fellow Permies! Here's a video I just did with my neighbor and buddy Matt on our YouTube channel, "Owner Builders Unite". We go over some things you can save on while building your Earthship and the process that both of us went through while building ours.

If you like alternative building and Earthships give it a like! Thanks everyone for reading and watching!

https://youtu.be/cEvNafe6hiw?si=T06dcPwZxFaQ5apf

Last one from the DVD "Hands on Straw Bale" with our friend Curtis... I posted the other 2 parts in the forums here too but feel free to find them on my YouTube channel Owner Builders Unite.

Thanks and hope people get some good pointers, and tips from this gem!

Hey Samantha!

Whoops! Yes... I meant to have it start at the beginning ... thanks for catching that!