Our Earth Sheltered Greenhouse
TheHomesteadingBoards.comHere is how we built a earth sheltered greenhouse. After our fiasco with our pit greenhouse my wife and I were looking for a plan B. My wife’s father had spent several weeks...
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TheHomesteadingBoards.comThis is how we built our earth sheltered home. In 1995 my wife had surgery on her shoulder, while she was in surgery I went down to the bookstore to pick up a book to read....
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TheHomesteadingBoards.comOver the weekend we worked on our earth sheltered home some more, I bought some 8 inch block and used that to raise the walls on the shed. The blocks never seemed to end! and...
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TheHomesteadingBoards.comThis is a continuation of our earth sheltered home, I forgot how much work this actually was! We started framing out the doorways to the bathroom and pantry and started framing...
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TheHomesteadingBoards.comThis is a continuation of our earth sheltered home. I started pulling wire, I hate pulling wire, especially with all the angles we have within the studs. and labeled all the...
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TheHomesteadingBoards.comThe next day I fed the power supply into our Earth sheltered home. We were getting pretty excited to almost be able to start moving on to finishing the interior. Unfortunately...
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TheHomesteadingBoards.comWe had just a few more things to finish on the outside of our earth sheltered home. Fall was coming and we needed to get a move on before the snow started falling. This is a...
View ArticleOur Earth Sheltered Home Build Part 7
TheHomesteadingBoards.comThis is the final post on the construction of our earth sheltered home. It was fun to go back over the pictures and to remember everything we did to get to this point. I hope...
View ArticleFinishing our Earth Sheltered Home
TheHomesteadingBoards.comThe following spring we had to address the front of our earth sheltered home. The dirt we had put on top of the insulation became a huge mess. We were debating between...
View ArticleRe: Earth Sheltered Geodesic Greenhouse
Very interesting. I’ve been thinking a lot over the last couple weeks on how to pull off an earth-sheltered greenhouse. I was thinking more along the lines of a rectangle with a higher northern wall...
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I just saw this and haven’t had a chance to check their site yet, I wonder what his idea of affordable is
View ArticleBy: prairiebird
I like a lot! This is pretty close to what I want to do, except build 24′x36′ with a basement. Here in western KS, coolth is just as important heat! I really appreciate your taking the time to post...
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