A Geodesic Greenhouse — Year-Round Gardening at 6000 Feet

[saralovemassage]

Beautiful! I love that you not only are up to amazing things Breigh, but that you are open sourcing such a large amount of info in over 215 You Tube videos! I am co-creating a self sustainable eco village called One Community with a team of "pioneers" and we are looking for a permaculture expert and a few others to complete our initial group of 40. Check out One Community Ranch (dot) org and help yourself and/or share anything there as it is all open source :) Infinite gratitude!

[MultiDillHole]

I didn't realize gorgeous women wear bluejeans, no makeup, and work in horticulture until I saw this video

[Kazekoge101]

how much acreage is this farm?

[llewej7]

You girls rock! Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.

[insomniacgrace]

Love it. Thanks for sharing.

[nflagator]

Love the dome. Using Aquaponics would have been a more efficient use of the water. That looks like duck weed in the tanks, not moss. Fish love duck weed.

[nflagator]

Love the dome. Using Aquaponics would have been a more efficient use of the water.

[mahasukha]

i would love to know how they worked out drainage for the growing beds....

[sibleyirene]

i want one

[MRWhiteFolksCakes]

The Island of Lesbos! lol! ;-)

[ortsa123]

Does you intro have ANY basis in fact? Any?

[STeLLaLuNOra]

i love plants! i want my dream garden with my own land with lots of friut trees.

[Annahealthseeker]

Beautiful...Looks like the Garden of Eden.

[H204Real]

do not believe in climate change science or the over population myth but this product

is definitely necessary as inflation skyrockets and the U.S. dollar collapses and loses its reserve currency status. people need to stop relying on government handouts and benefits.

get self sufficient....and grow your own affordable food that has not been handled by chemicals and genetic modification.

[turak0]

What turns me of about these videos is how unhealthy the people look and how ugly they are... how out of shape, how unathletic they are. Especially the Host grey hair like wire... pale with blubber hanging from her wrinkled legs and arms and boobs hanging down below her belly button... ugh. Skinny-stick girls with no muscle. Fat men with ugly beards who never shave. Don't any of them ever go outside? for gods sake: I I thought working outdoors gives you a healthy tan and some muscles

[frankysanche]

@turak0 I think Bree is cute as hell... Just sayin. And who cares?  They are great at what they do. You sir, are a jerk.

[rickjames9898]

bree looks baked



[ilcvmvm]

I used to grow plants when I was a kid, now I have a long term goal to have a self sufficient garden aka greenhouse. nothing like relaxing around beautiful and exotic plants. I have to thank you for the inspiration, well it might take many years but I love the idea of being able to eat what I grow knowing is healthy and nutricious.

[8LionMyth8]

Awesome!



[saintmichaelsarmoury]

Greenhouses aren't magic. Stop using that word.

[revolutionstrtr]

good info except for the global warming invention.

[TheBuilderguy1]

Sounds like some rich people hired some people that had never grown a real garden to look over thier money. When the natural heat from the sun runs out, the rich people will be seperated from some more of thier money. They will need a few years to figure out how to balance the budget. I'd bet that you could buy the food to feed about 50 people for a year to pay thier salaries and the expenses of running this operation for a year.

[Vadios83]

The whole global warming garbage and peak oil BS at the start kinda ruins the whole video and is discrediting everything. I also find the line "we dont anticipate that this greenhouse will need any heat all winter long" very interesting. So basically this greenhouse never experienced a winter at the time of the recorduing. I would really like to see how awesomely stuff grows there during the last extremely harsh winters we had world wide.

[nerdmom920]

"I want to go to there."

 ---Alice Richmond

[shrednrip420]

How are you dealing with the spider mites ??

[uhateusaFU]

Are those triple wall panels? 

[SuperHappyFucker]

WOW!!!! MANNN!!!! YOU COULD GROW ALOT OF WEEEEED!!!!!!

[7MRsilkgrow]

are you guys harvesting the seeds out of those morning glory's?

[udgarparsons]

in my experience insects seem to find their way into a greenhouse fine through the open windows

some

[udgarparsons]

some plants' flowers do not open properly at the right time so these have to be hand pollinated

The most common flowers to need this are Squash, Zucchuni, melon and cucumber. If you do a search for hand pollination video there are some good videos on you tube showing the process

[Subvert1024]

do you have to hand Pollinate in a green house?

[8DoverNJ]

Great video. What about possibly building two of these geodesic grow domes and have one designed more for tropical fruits and one for cooler climates? Glad to hear that catchwater law was repealed. Continued success with your farm. Cheers.

[truthisouttheir]

I am very impressed with this girl. it seems like a great food production system. i also want to set something like this up.

[kastnmagic]

The law preventing them from collecting rain water is CRIMINAL!!! How is this possible??? Governments are snatching up EVERYTHING!! I hope the ppl of Colorado are fighting this...

Craziest thing I've heard lately!!

[peakmoment]

@kastnmagic, Colorado has since repealed that law. I think it was on the books a long long time, perhaps since Colorado became a state.

[kastnmagic]

@peakmoment OH how good to hear!! Thanks for taking to the time to let me know this because that became a topic of discussion over dinner last night. LOL!!

[ddshears]

@kastnmagic

Exactly my thoughts...wtf???

[bryncomeaux]

@kastnmagic we shall overcome

[mrbr549]

Loved your video! Please make many more like this one. Subbed!

[goph2020]

Can you make a living doing this?  Free health care would be nice.

[goph2020]

can you make a living doing this?

[Genadiy27]

фу грязную морковь есть гадость помойте с начало а потом ешьте а то глисты будут)))Fu dirty carrots are disgusting to wash the top and then eat worms will be)))

[peakmoment]

@Genadiy27, gosh I brushed off the dirt and they tasted fabulous. I learned subsequently that humans need the bacteria bacillus subtilis in our gut. It comes from soil. It doesn't colonize in our gut, so we need to keep eating a bit of dirt. Maybe that's something we're all missing in our highly-processed food.

[7MRsilkgrow]

@peakmoment That was a very apt retort. I couldn't agree more myself.

[imaherrrbb]

@Genadiy27 most common way to get worms is from animal products not carrots. go "фу" yourself idiot...

[TerrierBram]

@Genadiy27 The soil actually provides germs that produce vitamin B12.

[oldgrib]

@Genadiy27 B12 bakteria kotoraya jivet v zemle i nahoditsya na nemitih ovoschah.

Udachi.)))

[donomatribe]

Amazing system!!! Inspiring!!!

I need to figure out a system for my home in WISCONSIN!!!

And yes these are the kind of people that need run this country!!!

[RedHorse2006]

This video has given me great hope for the future of mankind. We are killing ourselves quickly in this industrial age, and this sustainable, simple, and stunning method to life might just save us all. Pray its not too late. God bless you folks.

[RedHorse2006]

This young woman in the video is my new hero. What an inspiration! Living, growing, trading, and sharing locally. If that isn't the answer to the world's problems, I don't know if there are any answers. I actually got quite misty eyed watching this. I have been overwhelmed with the doom of mankind's own making as of late. The BP Gulf Oil spill, the toxic sludge spill across the Hungarian countryside, and countless less known disasters globally weigh heavy on my heart.

[goodkaul]

Couldn't this green house set up more layer planting. it doesn't have much food in it for the shear size. How about fruit trees?

[peakmoment]

@goodkaul, we taped this in their very first season. I think they were planning to use the vertical space more fully. Fruit trees are a great idea.

[elvieken]

You should maybe think about wicking beds for the outside gardens and orchard. With those big tanks of water I am surprised you dont have aquaponics. With the fish eating that duckweed and algae, I would suspect they are talipia. When you did the sand beds inside the dome what kind of cement/motar did you use and what did you use to water proof it if you did? How many people do you think you could feed just out of the dome? Very nice overall, good job.

[Soldier957]

those domes are great, but crazy expensive though...

[rewIndustry]

i have to say this, it's the perfect (for me) solution - at 15:00 - i would build my house in the middle, and continue the garden on the roof. let me rephrase that - i WILL build my house in the middle - probably out of painted cardboard, and kind of inside out, as houses go, because a cardboard house would survive very nicely in there, and all my life i've dreamed of living in a greenhouse.

this is the happiest one i've seen - thank you very much indeed.

[DreidMusicalX]

This is great! I am wanting to get more into my gardening and maybe someday get a couple acres to grow on? I enjoy it allot beside playing guitar? lol! So much to learn and eating better this year was great also! I like knowing where and what my food has in it. NOTHING! haha! No poisons at all I got away with this year but it was hard and I lost a bit of stuff doing it organic. Live and learn eh? Thans for the video!

[qedlife]

Within the greenhouse, if you gardened with compost tea, and put your veggies as close together as possible, and you made maximum use of the land available to you...how big would the greenhouse have to be, to sustain one person, indefinitely? Thanks!

[dorksighted]

I could live out there, breathing fresh mountain air. Say good-bye to urban despair. It's breaking my heart. Can I live without fast broadband internet, though? :/

[onegreenday]

Great T-shirt Breigh! Gotta a love the shrooms.........

Nice work on the garden. I want to visit you...........

[Ne0Que]

She definitely survives a world disaster over there :D

[moxieownage]

I think Bree is as beautiful as the greenhouse :P

[maldit0x]

so i can grow my weed and my muchies great!!!!!

[rawutah]

I love this video...very inspiring!!!

[TheWisetheman]

Bri baby I Love You

[PigNorton]

Who do I need to contact to price that large green house dome out ?

[peakmoment]

@PigNorton, go to geodesic-greenhouse-kits (dot) com/sizes (dot) php

[PigNorton]

@peakmoment  Thanks for the quick reply.

[udgarparsons]

@PigNorton growingspaces (dot) com

This greenhouse is Growing Dome from Growing Spaces, in Colorado.

They ship all across the world....

[mysciencenow]

build me a greenhouse bree

[zekehooper]

That's so stupid at the end where it is "illigal" to collect RIAN water! What's next? A tax on the air we breath! Glad I am in oregon. I'm sure there is a way to get around such a stupid law. The rain falls off the roof and into underground cisterns maybe? As long as there is no "visible" sighn of anything it should be fine? What a lame law!

[peakmoment]

@zekehooper, fortunately Colorado passed a law in 2009 permitting rainwater collection.

[ABETRMAN]

@zekehooper

I agree!

They are coming for us.

The powers that be are trying to overwhelm the system thru higher tax,entitlements and more laws so the current system will collapse beneath it's own weight.Folks need to wake up!

[cdltpx]

The dome is an excellent way to collect rain water if you dig and install ground tanks. There is a company that does this with plastic crates they assemble they have a video in my favorites.

[benamucc]

what an incredible project! and in CO too!! love the "ponds" and putting the babies on top of them. brilliant!!

[mreisma]

what about putting rabbits also in that chicken tractor. amazing place.  i want to build that kind of environment.

[a200171]

LOL! Thanks for clearing that up!

[a200171]

Maybe the least sustainable thing about the farm is that there are no boys there. Or were they just hidden indoors? :-)

[peakmoment]

There were several other folks of both genders working on the farm. Plus I expect there were male ducks and cattle, which we didn't videotape either.. :-)

[concretehavencom]

ive always wondered why in heck would u block-in the back of the dome??? leave it glass and build several heliostats mounted up on poles several meters behind it (which would be of large surface area )and u could easily reflect back in the 50% (or more if u want,) of light u loose in winter and cover the heliostat s with tarps in summer..crazy..i have heliostats on the north side of my coldframe and they reflect the sun back into it..we had 20 deg F + 7in of snow and i had tomatoes and blooms..

[peakmoment]

Neat idea, thanks for sharing it. Have more info on what a heliostat is and how it works?

[concretehavencom]

basically if u google heliostat or youtube it u will see..its technically a tracking mirror..with a multitude of uses..for example if u had a greenhouse on the backside of your house (opposite of where the sunlight is)say facing north u could position heliostats in your yard to reflect and or concentrate the light that strikes your backyard back towards your greenhouse. Winter solar insolation represents around a 50% light reduction over summer..easy to fix that for a greenhouse size area.peace

[mos6507]

The back is not "blocked". It is covered with foil which works like a parabolic mirror. I don't know how effective it is, but it sounds logical to me.

[ghjjfsbf]

Heh, Purple Dragon...

[naturalidea]

BRIEGH IS HOOTTTTTT

[JennerPomo]

Hi I am inspired to put on in my back yard to grow my own food to drop my blood presur.

Charles Gitchell Jr.

Jenner Pomo Research/Earth/Space/

[vegan911]

Go to raw foods , it will change your life!

[milkmood]

Can anybody provide some more detail on the how-to of building the sandbag retaining walls?

[irgy709]

the host is so cute, calling the plants "who"

I am so envious of this dome! I'd love to spend my life in a place like that.

[swankrecords]

Did you notice the marijuana plant? Quick eyes.

[andreschapero]

fantastic video, these girls should be running that country, they should be in charge of everything-- EVERYTHING !---

(clear enough ?)

Andres from Santiago, Chile.

[peakmoment]

Andres, we appreciate your nomination, but I decline the job.. I think the country would be radically different...starting from the grass roots. But there are a lot of vested powers working to keep the status quo -- I fear they won't just sit by as we work towards a lower-energy, locally-based economy. But I appreciate your sentiments!

[Bigbluewire]

Great video. It appears that barely a week after the posting of this video that the law has changed regarding the collection of rainwater.

nytimes(dot)com/2009/06/29/us/­29rain(dot)html

[SassafrasHomestead]

Janaia, thank you and your camera person for all the great videos (and the rest of the crew, also). This was a good idea to show people the usefulness of domes as greenhouses. Five stars.

[peakmoment]

You're welcome Sassafras. There are two in our team -- Robyn behind camera and editor, me producing and hosting.

[boxa888]

sooo awesome thanks so much! i have a massive greenhouse that i bought its like a industrial size but i havent set it up, but i cant wait to! it will be so great . thanks for these awesome videos!

[quantumsolutions]

Oh, another thought. I think she is working the land for someone else who owns it. That idea was highlighted in the Anastasia Ringing Cedars series as well.

A wealthy business man bought a little piece of land and then let a woman who loved to work the land grow food and live there for free. win/win. He got free organic food year round while she was happy as a clam. May more people consider working together like this.

[quantumsolutions]

Absolutely Inspiring!!! Thank you so much for these! =))

[doublev316]

I love these episodes where you tour these

wonderful places.

This one though is my favorite as I really like

greenhouses and want to get a geodesic dome myself.

5 stars!

[peakmoment]

Thanks! We're aiming to do more tours, and welcome everybody's ideas of what topics and kinds of places you'd like to see us do.

Janaia (host)

[hguyw]

Love the Permaculture videos the best. They're empowering !

[aprilspl]

I love your content but these videos can be a little slow and rambling.

Still good stuff always a five stars=-)

[peakmoment]

Thanks for your comment, aprilspl. I think most of us are used to tightly-edited (or shorter) videos that move faster (like movies). Since our two person team puts out a show every two weeks, we use the format of basically taping with minimal editing, to keep up that schedule. Otherwise they might never come out (editing takes a lot of time). Glad the content keeps you watching...Janaia (host)

[samailking]

This makes me so angry. How many peaple support a law like that ?

How many apose it ? Why do we accept

laws like that without doing something ?

Has this world gone mad ? If we allow the corporations to take rain water before it hits the land what next will we allow them to take ?

Monsanto are taking over our food supply

Codex Alimentarious is robbing us of nutrition. Please educate yourselves.

[peakmoment]

In this case it's the state of Colorado who claims all water rights. Still....

[quantumsolutions]

Yes, Samailing, I am looking very seriously into The Freeman on the Land movement where people are flat out ignoring their person (which is a corporate entity) and reclaiming their natural born rights as human beings.

You might enjoy this guy who thumbs his nose at police officers while doing 90 mph in a 45 zone--- All without a drivers license! (not that I would thumb my nose)

Anyway, if interested here's a vid on it.

watch?v=8Epdh8kG1LI

This is a way to reclaim our Earth! Peace.

[5starrater1]

I want one!

[odin422]

WOW, that is huge and awesome

[duckman4you]

Man thats so dump its illegal to collect rain water??? like WTF they are going to return it anyways.

[peakmoment]

Yeah, I was shocked when Breigh told me it was illegal to collect rain water -- that the state of Colorado holds ALL water rights. I said the same thing -- rainwater will just go right back to the earth -- just used in between times.

[aprilspl]

Did they give a reason for making this odd law?

What are they trying to protect and whats the logic behind it?

[dugfriendly]

Excellent episode. Soup to nuts tour on how someone is actually doing it. Thanks.

[aprilspl]

Do you know how you find a CSA in your area?

I live in Florida

thnkx

[peakmoment]

on the internet go to localharvest (dot) org (/) csa

change (dot) to .

change (/) = /

(youtube doesn't permit adding urls).

[loverofmudkip]

her eating that carrot was hot

[SonofNewo]

breigh peterson is sweet

[copefarms]

she is a cutie she could work on my farm anytime :)

[aprilspl]

Below I ment that this one is not rambling

its just right!

=-)

[peakmoment]

Thanks! That helps me gauge what we do...

Janaia