 We've been living off-grid in this cabin for almost a year now. And today is the day that we start building our geodesic dome off-grid greenhouse. This is where we're building the greenhouse. And to get to this point, we had to excavate the land, we had to trench water lines through it, and grab the pad. We plan to be as self-sufficient as possible out here in the woods. This greenhouse will allow us to grow our own food 365 days a year through all four seasons, including the harsh, cold Canadian winter. Growing your own food tastes so much better. The two of us are going to tackle it completely on our own. Let's get it. All right, we need 20 pieces of rebar at 24 inches in length. Bent the steel. Beautiful. Do you want to measure that? Make sure it's good. It's good. Or are you just that good? Now it makes 20. Good job. All right, 8 feet, 7 and a half inches is the radius. Okay, so stretch a radius of linen twine toward the true north, not magnetic north. Okay, now we're going to find north, the true north, and then that is going to be where the north-facing wall will be, which is a very important component in the build. It gets reflectics too, right? Yes. I don't know how many times Christa has read these instructions. Tell your mom to hurry up. Say, Mom, hurry up. Please, Mom. Hurry the heck up, Mom. First stake. First stake. That's the north, true north star. And this is where we go. No, just... What? Just the true north. True north star. The north pole. Okay, Bear, you kind of are on my greenhouse pod. Okay, Bear. Okay, come on, Bear. The north of the build is super important as you need to have your exact circle. That way you know where to put your base. And that way when you get to the top of the dome, life is easy. Okay, that took quite a while, but we finally got the radius measured and the true north, and we're able to make our way all the way around the outside circumference of the growing dome. We're kind of funny. We can put a metal roof on like that, but when it comes to reading instructions, instructions are tough. All right. Should we go now? Yeah, let's hit the road. Let's go. Going on a field trip. Take us. Miss Frizzle. Just kidding. Your hair looks like today. We have the same hair. It's true. It must be hiding behind some big rocks. Porter's trying out the drone and he was saying, well, how hard is it? And I was like, well, if you can drive an excavator and all these big trucks, you can certainly fly a drone. I have to say, every time we come here, it is equally as exciting. It's so vast, my favorite word. And yeah, the area is just absolutely massive. You feel like a little ant down here, tons of stone and rock and gravel in every shape and size and big machines. It's like watching a TV show, but you're here in real life. Glad we can bring you on here too. That is awesome. Check it out. Lots of gravel. Thanks, Porter. You're welcome. It's a beautiful thing. Cute little gravel she's got. It's such a cute little gravel. I know it's perfect. We don't have any of this at the home. At the home. At the cabin. The home's there. Wrap it up like a gift. What? Wrap it up like a gift. Thank you, Porter. Thank you, Porter. Have a good day. Have a good day. Beautiful. Because my boogie likes to go. Even on step number one, which isn't even anything. Okay, so reason number one for putting a gravel ring foundation underneath of this dome is to drain the water away. And it'll extend the life of the dome itself, which is super exciting. So we're obviously doing that. And we have three quarter inch stone. Okay, so one of the first things I learned is we're going to make a line from stake to stake. It's nine inches in width, three inches on the outside of this and the other six inches on the inside of the dome. Good job. Looks good. Yeah, it does. Looks fabulous. It's like literally the smallest step, just like stakes in the ground and gravel. And we're like, oh my God, we got a greenhouse. Well, it takes a long to get here, right? It's taken us a long time though, because we really just wanted to do it completely right. Like we wanted to have water in here. We want to have electricity in here. So I'm glad we didn't build it in November. Right? Right. Am I right? Right. Cool. I also think this is a really good time to update you all and let you know that my ankle was elevated and iced for how many days? A long time. A lot of days. We took a lot of days resting and Jasmine did a lot of jobs, like both all of my jobs and her jobs combined. So thank you, honey, for taking care of me and doing everything. And we've just been taking it. You're like going at my pace, which is really nice. We're just going at a little bit of a slower pace than normal, but getting things done still. So we're doing good. It was just a sprain. Are you tired or what? Yeah. Give me your energy, girl. I want your energy. Feed it to me. Feed it to me. The best part about assembling the dome is that Arctic Acres send us every single piece. When you purchase a dome kit, they come with all of the hardware. Even the door. Even this. Oh, that's nice. Wow. Yeah. So we really had to get very, very few things from the hardware store on our own, which if you know us at all, saves us a heck of a lot of time because we go to the harbors for like three times a week. We are building the walls to the foundation of this beautiful growing dome. It's 8.21 PM. We had a late start. And to be fair, we had to make a run to the quarry. We saw our friend Porter get chatting. But now that it's summer, how can you complain? We've got sunlight for another half an hour, so we might as well use every moment. Am I right? You're right. You're always right because the wife is always right. Okay, look, everyone. Already pre-drilled for you. Yep. Wild. Thanks, Arctic Acres. Beautiful. We love this now, eh? Now that we got a rhythm, you love it now. Although we have to bring out the miter saw, which is kind of nice. Yeah, like it's all pre-cut, pre-drilled. Yeah. Everything is just perfectly ready for you to build. You just got to figure out the instructions. Good morning, everyone. We are back on the job site. My boss is currently checking over the next step of our instructions. All the walls are up. And we're ready to bring this geodesic dome to life. We managed to build all of the walls last night. Now that the walls are built, we are moving on to putting the siding on, and then we are going to be building up. You're hot, eh? They're passed out. I was actually just, like, looking at you, knocking on. Dripping? No, you just look so good right now with that, like, everything. This is so good. You can see me on site. Oh, I learned something. You hammered in from the other side. It's easier. You don't have to get out. Oh, my goodness. This is that hot, eh? But these walls are very easy to attach. We're using our radius line and pulling it to every outside corner. And it is, in fact, lining up very well. Just using carriage bolts here to attach them and clamps. So, super simple. All of the tools, everything metal, everything is just in direct sun. It's so incredibly hot. No! Suck it. Touch that. I dare you. No, I'm not. Do it. All right. Now we get to skip this section because it is the door. I really wanted to have the door right here or right here to be symmetrical with the house, but it's a north-facing wall, and I'm not allowed to do that. Because, more importantly, you should probably have your door where it works. I'm making the greenhouse functioning. There's a lot of actually things that matter when it comes to making a greenhouse. It's not just... There's so many things. Everything to do with North-South-East-West, the wind, all of these things, where it's placed, how much sun it gets. Sometimes it can get too much sun in the summer. 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With your first purchase. With your first purchase. Last wall! Are we ready to get to work now? Yeah, and we're starting with leveling. Thank you. Fun. So, yeah, we're going to try and compact all the Gravelton nice ring, and get all of the corners matching distance to the radius, and then we can start building up. Finally! It takes so long to get here. It does. It just does. Everything takes longer than you think it does. This is literally the most tedious part. And, you know, I have a perfectionist on my hand, but that's good, because we need to be super precise at this point, or else when we meet at the top, nothing's going to meet. Now we need to attach these walls to the actual foundation gravel pad by using Raybar. I'm getting jacked first. Arm is the size of this Raybar. I'm killing it! It looks like Kylie Jenner cutting a cucumber man. If you're going to swing this way, this can goes to the bottom, this can goes to the top. Switch. I can't swing like that. No, that is so weird. I can't hold it like this. Oh my God. That's the wrong hand. Too weird. Jasmine is absolutely killing it. With the Raybar. Raybar, Raybar. Tomato, tomato. Scrub. See it? Honey, go ahead. Oh, no. Yikes. A couple more left. You got it, babe. Absolutely crushing it. We got to put it to work more often. Crystal is finishing us off in the last one. Because this actually really hurts. I'm being a baby right now. Alright, girl. Watch your glass. Bring us home. Bring us home. I want to get walls up tonight. Yo, this camera is burning. You got it, girl. I'm loving the swing. Nice. That was a good one. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. And then a good hit. Come on, ladies. We're losing some fuel, but Jazzy's got us covered. There you go. Yum. One burger, one sausage. Thank you. Two in a bed. Can't forget about dessert. The corner is good enough for you there, perfectionist. It was like a movie. The way the storm rolled in. Yo, it's really coming down. I didn't know I'd expect this. Poor Izzy. She's so sad. Okay. This is definitely the most exciting part of the build thus far. We are creating the structure that will be the actual dome. We've started right here. We're doing A triangles and B triangles, and we're using different types of hubs, hexagonal hubs, and pentagonal hubs. It believes what they're calling them. And I think this is going to be a little bit like a puzzle. Time to bring it home. So our door is here. So we have A, and then we have B, and then we need to go A, and we've got to go B, A, B, A, B, A, B. And then we're done. We're flying along now, hey? Or we are. It's getting real fun. There's a lot more motivation now that we can see some things. Oh, yeah. Not looking at the same ring for the whole freaking time. Yeah. All right. We're following the pattern fairly well. Hexagon, six holes, pentagon, five. Big triangle, small triangle, big triangle, small triangle. Small triangle. Hexagon hubs on the bottom layer should be parallel with the B base strut. Pentagon hubs, same situation, parallel with the B base strut. All other struts should fit and line up perfectly. This assumes the foundation wall is verified level. Woo. Check this out. I just took a step back. It's looking so good, and it's so cool. I just love when you can like finally see it take shape. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. This is it. Staring at this for far too long. If we didn't pay as much attention on the bottom, then this top part wouldn't be as fun. Yeah, it wouldn't be. We're having fun now. We are, yeah. We're cruising, and it's true. It's all because we actually made the bottom level imperfect. We took the time. Like perfection. Woo. Gosh, I have a perfectionist. My dome would not look circular. It would be like, kong. Good job. That looks so good. It's super easy to maneuver. Like, I'm very impressed with this. Yeah, like this has been a really fast build today. Like, yeah, like how much we've got done already? Yeah. We're at the top. Woo. Woo. What's next? The last level. The last level. That's what I call plant-based butter. Smooth as butter. Smooth as butter. Honey. The next part is super cool. So basically, all you have to do is you see this right here? This, we're just gonna take it apart because this is the door. And we're gonna put it up top and it's not simple. You ready to go to Crystal? I'm almost ready. I'm an instruction follower so I need to read them first. Oh my goodness. She's going on another instruction. Come on, lady. Let's just get this thing done, lady. So we can have all the food for you. Because food makes you happy. That's true. Especially green food. That's true. And Burger King. That's very true. All right. The next part is installing the polycarbonate sheets which make this dome a greenhouse. They are multi-walled, half-inch thick triangles which actually keep all of the wind, snow, and pests out but let all of the sun in. All right.