Pat Behrens

The marker-on-cans and rolling-rack systems in this thread work, and honestly for a small pantry they're hard to beat. The failure mode I kept hitting with a bigger deep pantry was invisibility: rotation happened for what I could see, and the back row quietly expired. A few times I've found jars of pickled cabbage that are over 3 years old and I'm pretty skeptical about eating them.

Disclosure: I ended up building an app for it (BeaglePrep, Android; I'm the dev). The two things it adds over marker-and-rack: reminders before anything expires no matter where it's shelved, and a days-of-supply number per category so you can see where you're thin before you're standing in the store guessing. You can also make a "shopping list" for when you're at the store and it'll file away the food you buy when you're done.

Offline, no account, $4.99 once, free tier to try. If your pantry fits on shelves you can see, the marker honestly still wins.

Oooo, awesome. I didn't know Latexcrete was a thing. I'll need to do some research. Does the latexcrete need to be super thick? I'm sorta concerned about the overall weight of the dome roof + snow load in the winter. We can get several feet of snow in the winter here in Wisconsin.

The next structure I want to build at the camp is a sauna/bathhouse and I plan to dig that into the ground on the side of a small hill. The terrain here is topsy turvy and there are a few good spots nearby to dig in.

I look forward to exploring the forums more. So many fun ideas for projects.

Right now it is just for weekend trips. We've been camping in tents the past 3 years and want something a bit more permanent that we don't have to setup every time. We want to add some storage in there for stuff we use every trip like cooking utensils, lighting, flip flops. Eventually I want to add a wood stove so we can be cozy in the winter.

I'm comfortable with a range of building materials. I have mostly done wood carpentry and a bit of sewing. My girlfriend said she would help me out with sewing if we end of using heavy duty canvas.

This forum is great because I wouldn't have thought about looking for waste streams. There is a pallet company down the street from me, I might see if they do anything with plywood. One of the ideas I had some some thin plywood.

We want to use sawmill waste slabs to sheath the vertical risers the dome sits on because there is a ton of lumber/paper industry in the area. You can get slabs pretty cheap and I'll only need to clean them up a bit and put some oil/stain on them .

I know I'm a little late to the party, but sick dome. That's a unique way to connect the struts

Hello Permies People,
Just found this forum while working on another project but have stuck around and love every thing here.

I wanted to share my geodesic dome build and also get some insight from you folks about what to cover the dome with.

My property for fun woods projects is in Northern Wisconsin near the upper peninsula of Michigan. I have always thought domes were cool so decided to build one elevated on a wooden deck. I built a riser on top of the wooden deck for the dome to rest on so there is more usable space around the walls. I am planning to add little "bump out" storage units around the riser so there is more storage inside.

I'm still unsure about what I want to cover the dome in. I looked at poly carbonate sheeting and it would cost around $2000 bucks for the sheeting. So I'm leaning towards a soft cover now. There are sites that sell recycled PVC billboard coverings for cheap. I want to get 2 of those and splices them together with PVC tarp cement and/or a plastic welder. Not 100% set on the idea though.

Would love to hear what forum members think are inexpensive covering options.

I've screwed up starting peppers a few times. I used a heating mat but didn't have strong consistent lighting once they popped up through the soil. And ended up really spindly plants that flourish as much as other starters I got from friends.

I think something that a lot of people neglect when starting plants indoors is wind. Like once they pop up out of the soil run a fan over them so the seedlings can beef up their stalks. Someone told me you can brush your hand over the tray too to simulate wind.

Another thing I'll do if I'm not feeling lazy is acclimate the baby plants by bringing them inside/outside a few times before planting to acclimate them further. Hope you have better luck next season!

The marker-and-rotation systems above are honestly hard to beat for a pantry you can see at a glance, and the "best by, not bad after" point is well taken. But since the original post asked specifically about apps and that part never got answered: the requirements listed there (multiple storage locations, expiration notifications, works across home-canned and store-bought) are almost exactly the spec I built to, so sharing in case it helps.

Disclosure first: I'm the developer. BeaglePrep (Android) assigns items to locations (basement, root cellar, camper), sends reminders before dates come up so rotation happens on schedule rather than by memory, and scans barcodes for store-bought goods while home-canned batches enter once and autocomplete after. The reminders are rotation nudges, not throw-it-out alarms; what you do at the date is your call. Fully offline, no account. Happy to answer questions here either way.