This video shows step by step directions for building a gothic shaped or bowed roof greenhouse with laminated wood like the UM passive solar greenhouse that we reported on the other day. This model supposedly meets Florida’s 160 mph wind code, and can easily be built by most do-it-yourselfers.
Owen Geiger
Boiling Point Cooking Stoves
The free online document linked below has several interesting low tech/low cost stove designs from around the world, including some commercial scale stoves for feeding lots of people.
Greenhouse Homemade with Cattle Panels
It would be easy to strengthen this greenhouse design with rebar. The same basic idea could be used to build low cost ferrocement housing, shop space, etc. by adding rebar, small mesh and cement plaster.
Curtis Stone’s Urban Farm Tour
We featured Curtis Stone’s urban farming method a few weeks ago — How to Make $100,000 Farming 1/2 Acre You Don’t Own. This farming/gardening method had a big impact on me and readers of this blog, so I thought I’d show this video of his urban farm. It’s very impressive. Most farmers don’t make six figure incomes on half or third of an acre.
Channel Rock – Permaculture Wonderland on Cortes Island
“Channel Rock is an off-the-grid site with accommodations for 40, delicious organic food from our permaculture garden, hiking and beach activities.
Conduit Dome – Part 5 Wire and Cement
“This was the hardest part of the entire project so far — it was my first attempt at working with cement (other than using a couple bags of ready mix to set fence poles). All in all, I am pleased with the outcome, and learned a lot about what to do, what not to do, and how I would do it if I ever do it again….”