How NATURAL BUILDING is Making Homes SAFER & CHEAPER
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- It's time to re-think our current way of building at scale. Natural building is opening the doors to make our dwellings safer, accessible, cost effective, and beautiful.
We're 4 years into our natural building journey on our off-grid desert homestead, and recently had the opportunity to speak at the Southwest Alternative Building Conference in May of 2024. Jonathan wrote and researched this talk, and it went so well that we turned it into this video. Below are a ton of links, resources, and researched references if you'd like to dig deeper.
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There are lots of numbers, stats, and claims in this article. I've taken the liberty of linking them here if you'd like to do more of your own research.
Great Pyramid of Giza: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_P...
Great Wall of China: education.nationalgeographic....
Pont du Guard: pontdugard.fr/en/discover/mon...
Temple of Petra: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra
Industrial Revolution: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industr...
Construction Stats: gocontractor.com/blog/how-doe...
Health Benefits of Natural Earthen Construction: www.permaculturenews.org/2017...
Flame Retardants Cancer: www.cnn.com/2024/04/01/health...
Cost to Build a House in Arizona 2024: www.mkdesignandbuild.com/cost...
Cochise County Owner-Builder Opt-Out: www.cochise.az.gov/212/Owner-...
Global Energy Consumption: www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/det...
Earthbag Seismic Safety: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthba...
Forest Fire Trends: www.wri.org/insights/global-t...
Straw Bale Fire Resistance: strawbale.com/fire-resistance...
Grand Mosque of Djenné: whc.unesco.org/en/list/116/
Great Wall of China: whc.unesco.org/en/list/438/
Cliff Palace Mesa Verde: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_P...
Taos Pueblo: taospueblo.com/about/
Bandalier National Monument (history): www.nationalparks.org/explore...
Bandalier National Monument (carved in stone): www.nps.gov/band/learn/histor...
New Home Construction: www.brookfieldresidential.com...
Vitamin D Deficiency: my.clevelandclinic.org/health...
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00:00 - Intro
0:48 - A Look Back at How We Used to Build
2:10 - Chemicals & Toxins in Modern Building
3:24 - Cost + Accessibility
4:49 - Efficiency
6:36 - Fire & Earthquake Resistance
8:04 - Longevity
9:59 - Mental & Physical Health
11:11 - Creativity
12:18 - Community
13:13 - What Now?
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Finish goat barn
I have lived in a strawbale house in the Texas hill country for 15 years. I love it.
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Love this video. I live in rural south western Zimbabwe and the building methods we use here are very similar to yours. Natural cooling structures that blend so well with the landscape. You should look up Eastgate Centre, also here in Zimbabwe, which takes sustainability in city architecture to the next level.
As the daughter of a carpenter, I have been fascinated by the "alt" / natural building methods since I was little. This is my dream. Hopefully I will catch a break and beable to build my natural home.
You guys are so smart. Soo smart!!
You are focused. You learn with every step. Most of all you are loving and kind. You have grown a family that generates happiness. I think it’s because you are humble and willing to learn every day.
I’m so grateful for you and your sharing on you tube. Sweeties, you know you’re helping, helping the greater community 🔅
I think your dream of having the homestead look like it rose out of the desert is fabulous! And you are doing it!!! And it is beautiful. I remember a time when people were using alternative building methods but they were ugly. You have added beauty!!
❤❤ so envious of you all. Hence love watching your chanel with incredible projects. Your family helping each other. From a fan from oz and at 73 if I had my youth again i would follow in your footsteps. Here in oz so many permits inspections etc make it pretty difficult doing owner builder.
We should start a club for Australian fans of TSH. 💕
I'm just over New Mexico border. Doing 5 acres. I so appreciate your stories.
Great video! This made me feel so proud of you and all you’ve accomplished including sharing the process w us! Thank you 🙏🏽
I have to say project after project your attention to detail and artistry is absolutely wonderful! From beginning to end, things seem to be done with such thoughtfulness, practicality and style………
I find it so lovely that you all are so industrious and welcoming to other people for your created revolution! Especially the sadly overlooked dinosaur community in the county. It does you credit!
We need more dancing dinosaurs 🦕 in our world!
@@damogranheart5521agreed
My old home was $40k to build complete with me doing 80% of the work and was done with a steel American barn 4 bedroom gyprock tiles kitchen bathroom ect and off grid.
New house is made completely with free shit from FB buy and sell but if I could do it over I would do underground house hands down the best with extreme weather events.
I'm building with adobe, but will 100% build underground also. Several other people in my community are building underground as well. It's really catching on
Underground is cold and damp in winter, not a healthy place to live.
@@naps3386 it depends where you live so far as dampness goes, but with proper drainage and ventilation, it shouldn't be an issue. Also, below the frostline, temperatures unground stabilize to about 50 degrees compared to freezing temperatures above ground
@@naps3386actually the earth holds the temperature at a more temperate level even during the winter. Usually between upper 50s to low 60s Fahrenheit naturally so it is easier to warm an underground space and the walls will hold the thermal mass better.
You guys are natural teachers!! 👏💚 You have done your research and have landed in a community that is open to different building modalities...I live in a highly building regulated area where if I tried to get a permit to build an unconventional structure it would be impossible. There are many powerful lobbies out to thwart attempts to change how and in what type of structure we live. 😩😩 Kudos to you, Tiny Shiny family!!!🌈🌈🌈
This is one of your best videos ever. You're definitely spreading the right message. Lovely work
Invaluable perspective and an extraordinary example you are providing! Thank You! 🙏
I saw a sticker on someone elses car the other day, it said
me < we
I love this.
Keep inspiring people.
that's a cool thing for building houses in your area. If you are comfortable with plumbing do it yourself but if you would rather hire an electrician do your electrical, just hire one. Here it takes licensed carpenters, electricians, plumbers, etc. to build.
You guys are amazing ❤
There are more places beside Arizona who have recognized this type of building and put minimal regulations on the build, places meaning states and /or by various countries!! IF the area you live in does not allow for this type of building at this time, then you can submit for it to be accepted, and you can present how other areas have done it, and work closely with whatever agency/committee or whatever to work out the kinks for you and others to build this way where you live.
As far as building and having pros come in for the plumbing, etc., just one or several or for the entire build, it should be up to the owner to decide not rules or regulations dictating you must!!!’
Have an awesome day!!!
Perfect insight into your research and execution of your builds. Plus a great recap of the Alternative Building Conference presentation you did a couple weeks ago in Rodeo, NM. This was in the top 10 of your best videos, IMHO! Keep going and stay hydrated, gettin’ hot!
Thanks sir! The heat finally caught up with us didn’t it?😂
You are doing us all a favor. ❤️🙏Love learning with you.
Please come and live in New Zealand. We would love to have a family like yours. These homes look so safe in an earthquake. ❤❤❤
Don't forget the mud cities of Hadhramaut in Yemen. Where people living in mud skyscrapers topping off around 13 stories until now. The mud skyscrapers aged from 700 to 900 years old if not more!
Love your videos! I will begin to post my journey for my property in the months and years to come. Thanks for showcasing homesteading, permaculture, and all your videos! Best wishes!
Great video Guys.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹
Omg amazingly beautiful ❤❤ thankfully we can synchronise hopes and dreams the world is our oyster. We just have to believe 🙏 in our dreams ❤❤ from a 70yr o.d lady living my dream in Kuranda Far North Australia 🎉
Well done, well said! Enjoying the journey. Thanks for sharing.
This short simple example of construction within a LIVING sustaining planet perspective. Brings a smile To my heart , being over 60 just hoping to see this LIVING LIFE revolution now moving forward . Thank you
This is an amazing video, guys. I just wish I could get my husband on board.
Wow👍well done!🎉
Builders need to take classes in this type of construction...more resilient & fire proof. It is the new trend for construction in the future. Darlings, stay cool & out of the heat wave to come❤
Right on guys well done!!
You’re living my dream.. hang on I’m gunna do it!!! 😂
This past week, I binge-watched hours of your videos.... I'm caught up now...
Now I am truly inspired to investigate building a homestead... beginning steps... I have spent several months in AZ (tent camping 😬) from summer to spring at varying elevations... it was not easy, but I did it.
It's all going to come together in the right time... soon, I trust.
Thank you so much for sharing our journey ❤
I hope to visit during a meet up or workshop...
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Love from Payson AZ.👍
So unifying ❤
Oh 😯, them views. Incredible and beautiful essence of Harmony ❤
I love your happy faces and so thankful I found your site.🎉❤
How much longer do you think it will take to finish the house? It has to be very taxing on your bodies. I admire what you are doing and teaching your children. YOU ARE AMAZING.
It's yrs away realistically
I love watching this channel. There are some good reasons for it: You don't pretend to do everything by hand. When tools makes things easier, you use tools. You don't pretend your material is completely free, and you don't mind sharing how much it costs. And I am a firm believer in "grow where you are planted", so building with dirt makes perfect sense for your location. Not everyone has the land or the resources to do this. For those of us who have already invested in a "stick house", mobile home, or other mainstream home choice, I'm also in favor of "recycling" older homes. While sometimes toxicity of materials or decrepitude of the building make this impossible, don't listen to your kids, grandkids or other nay sayers who suggest, "Just strike a match to it and start over." Older homes can be "upcycled" (to use a current catch word). It just takes creativity and putting up with some inconvenience while restructuring. This was/is a fantastic post! Loved every minute of it, and look forward to future posts -- especially about that magnificent house. Just reminder: one great way to make a home sure isn't the only way. History of home building is both varied and amazing.
Great points! Yes re-using or upcycling is something we're doing here, too. Anything we can do makes a big difference ❤️
You could have mentioned log cabins or sod houses too. It's funny how the term "traditional house" has changed. "Traditional" now has nothing to do with historical but means "modern".
Having grown up in the muck fields of Indiana and now living in the peet bogs of northern Germany, I cringed when you said "Dirt doesn't burn."
I have a brick house with triple glazed windows. The solar on the roof provides nearly all of the electricity for about half the year, including the electric chain saw and wood splitter for the firewood and charging the electric vehicle in the driveway. Next step is electrically heated hot water in the summer. Unfortunately, in the winter, it just isn't enough... yet. I want to add more panels and would love to find a small wind powered generator that actually works...
I think what you are doing is great! Blessings on your endeavors!🕊📚🖖🫖🐈⬛🦉🌧
Love this video! Would love another one about, raising animals for food & for their products, laundry, cooking, etc & maybe one about rainwater catchment, solar systems, etc. It was really great that it was very concise but thorough & just the right length to catch the attention & start people searching. Thank you guys! Love your family & all that you’ve done & are doing to help the earth while building a homestead!! Love from Oregon ♥️ Jess
Community Matters !
Happy you are following your path.
Fantastic video! God Bless from your Canadian Friend.
Excellent,very educational.
I totally agree with your thoughts. If we don't start, how are our adult children starting to look at life in a different way. It's not about how much we have, how much better mine is than someone else's. We are moving one my husband retires this summer. We have bend looking at places where we can put more of your ideas to work and build a substantial able life with the earth. I am greatfull for all of your videos, and I am going to be tuned into your videos to learn more ❤
It also takes deserted wasteland which in the UK we just don’t have. Our deserts are wet soggy moorland, not relatively dry sandy soiled scrub. Buildings regulations, health and safety restrictions and trade groups all make this nothing more than pipe dreams in the UK. It good luck ❤ envious.
RUclips channel "Kris Harbour"! He moved to Wales and built his own round house home. He built a two-level workshop. He made a wind power generator. He built his solar system. He built his own hydropowered system and now designs and builds them for others. He built his own saw mill. He is now building a timberframed barn. It can be done!
Innovative, creative, and progressive ~ what a gift for your children to grow up this way! This was a great video. I love watching and learning from y’all. Now get Ashley her electric gate opener please. 🙏💙✨
Your information is amazing. You are gifted in how you present information. I thank you for sharing with us these facts. I look forward to watching your channel with what you are doing. You are kind to each other as a family & as individuals you want what is best for each person. Thanks for sharing your lives. May God Bless!
Thanks!!!
This is something that I feel deep in my soul and would like everyone contemplating "The Big Move" to watch. Each of you has shown your intention to adapt to a better way of life a life that some would call "alternative" and look down their noses at.
You are the modern pioneers who are leaving the trappings of society behind as you lead future generations into a better life. It may not happen overnight, but believe me, it will happen. People are sick and tired of existing in what "society" calls a normal existence. Many are, like you, looking for an alternative, they are looking for a simpler way of life with a more intimate connection with nature. Somewhere, they can grow their own food and crops knowing they haven't been covered in pesticides and insecticides.
You are the leaders and, I salute each and every one of you...
beautiful summary! We've been with you from the AZ start and continue to be so impressed with your diligence, your attitude, your family, and your projects. Thanks for the inspiration!
Great Vid! I think the most important thing you said in this video was "the loss of a human touching the thing they're making with purpose, intent, and meaning". Here at my place in Cochise County, long before I ever even had an inkling that I would own this place, I actually helped put the stucco on the home that would eventually be my straw bale home several years before I bought it. So, inadvertently, I had a hand in building it. Thanks for the video!
That is so cool :)
Awesome video! Lots of good reminders about why building your own home is so valuable for everyone. Thx
I love this! Always coming in hot with the inspiration! Thanks for sharing ❤️
Getting emotional watching your videos, they are reminding me of my tiny village nestled between mountains of pothohar plateau ,in Pakistan( the area where the world gets its Pink salt from) .. thank you for educating us. Hope to use to this knowledge practically someday soon. Much Love.. ❤❤
Good morning guys.. Another great video.. I was thinking last night to ask you if you can give me a link to your building an earthen floor. Thanks ❤
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Hi Ash and Jon, generally in Australia we do have local bylaws that tend to be irksome and a deterrent for people needing to build. That you live in such an open minded county is a true blessing, just wish they existed here. I do admire your commitment to a more sustainable way of living.
Man, I love this video! So true! All of the information was spot on and inspiring!
Spot on. Love it. ❤
Love the message. You delivered it well. So many great alternative options to consider.
Simple life is a happy life
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Always beautiful videos 👏
Very well done and captivating ... Sweet work guys! Love your channel!
Great vid. We love you guys!
awesome way to live guys!!!!
That's why I sold up moved across country to greener pastures with my own field of 9 acres and living in my off grid shepherds 🛖 and my new rescue cat Hettie and I moved my two rescue horses 350 miles ... I could not love it more 😊
Love this video. Keep going. We'll keep watching 👀
I just love what u all are doing. If I was just younger and better health. I would love to visit you allsomeday. Thank u for sharing ur life. You are a blessing in my life. May God Bless u ur friend Susan
I've used wood stove for 20 years, 100 watt solar for 15 years and rainwater for 8 years. my utilities turned off for 4 years 5 months. It's been a challenge in -20 Cold snap I nearly died in 2022. So...be well prepared for anything. ❤
I have been studying this subject for years, 1977 to now, mother earth news and all sorts of magazines had articles about all of this. Back then the transition would have been easy to slowly implement.
Excellent info. And inspiring, as always. Thank you for sharing.
Dang, you almost made me cry today. But I'm old 😂😂and I live in a tiny house, so I can't start over. You guys are an inspiration. Keep on truckin'
Awesome!
I have watched you and your family live your dreams from the moment you started. I am always excited to see what you have been up to and celebrate your wins with you. I am older and live in a fabulous stick house (as you referred to it) on a small 50 acres with gardens and chickens and views that literally take my breath away as the sun glistens off the lake. I am thrilled for your journey and this video was very informative and a bit demeaning at the same time to all that live in a “stick house” just my own opinion. Keep your dreams going and remember we all dream differently.
I don’t think it was demeaning at all. I think it you choose to see it as demeaning, that is in your control. I think it was positive and informative. A lot of us would take this path if our time was beginning again and where we live allowed it.
@@deedawson6074 Thanks Dee I waited all my life for your comment. I love this family and in families you can alway share your views and ideas and critiques because that’s how ideas grow. We can all support, just the to their side
Well said and well done TSH👍🏾
This is beautiful - thanks.
Very good use of the video essay format! Really enjoyed the presentation.
Terrific mission statement.
I love the idea of how you have built your home and are using solar, collecting water. I am so empressed with you and your family.
I’m asking why do you only have 143k subscribers!? Such excellent production deserves more recognition.
sharing is caring . i concur 100 %. and they could use more sponsors. . their product placement steered me to a few items . (love my dewalt drills)
Going the direct route . Love you guys. Sorry the swing didn’t take with the goats. Thank you for your love of gaia Blessings. Red Dirt Ruckus. Placerville ca.
I knew it was important but never realized how important! I will be so Happy when I’m finally able to retire so I can get away from the city and start my own off grid building although I hope to start before I retire by buying land before then but it’s hard taking care of six people with very little help. You are so blessed to have a family that wants to help do it all! Wish I could get more followers it might help and then I could have more to post about❣️🙏 May God continue to bless you🙏!
I love y'all's video's thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤
A great video! I would call it a reality-documentary. A historical to modern day building & construction techniques. Thanks so much!!
Great video, very inspirational. I also believe that your teaching children great skills, and how to live with the earth and be self sufficient..
We old people can't do what you are doing even though we agree with you. When we were young it was our dream to own a home. So we purchased a few acres of land and had a house framed and we did the rest. It was paid for as we went.
But it was on the grid and we did have a well and own sewer.
Our daughter moved far away and called us sad. So we sold and moved. I'm not sure we would have been able to stay there in our super old age. So we are still on our own but I feel for the next generation. We have grandkids.
I love this video! I want to show it to my city council!
Good morning ☕️
Good morning ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Excellent video. The info was eye opening. 😮
Thank you. good job, I will be following you ALL the way stay safe
Is your structures classified experimental? To allow to build and dwell in them?
I mean, they are experimental, but they aren’t technically classified that way in any sort of permits or anything
Awesome video. I hope it inspires more people to build naturally
❤❤❤. Fully agree.
Well done!
Such a great video. Sharing!
I enjoyed today's mix. When I was in middle school we would watch movies that would tell us about the world. manufacturing, farming, people. I very much enjoyed it. I would love to see if this video could be included in middle school curricula.
philosophical, love it!
Excellent overview!
Ode to be connected to the LAND working directly WITH it, intimately discovering how the sun and moon light and delight it through the seasons, how water collects, how botanicals grow and glorious when able while your beautiful family CREATE, BUILD and DREAM both your "now" and your future TOGETHER.
This part of your "why" delights and inspires me and I'm so stoked for your awesome family, creations, hard work, habitats and land. Even though I've been settled into my land for decades now, living with huge gratitude for my gift of place, family (my "kids" in their 30's now), past past, present and future creativity, love, continued hard work on the land and a relationship to each stone and botanical that are pure joy, even after so many decades.......
I love and value your choices, your creativity, your family way and your land so full of life that you breath into it........
Wonderful how you live, go for it as you're learning and educating along the way, beautiful !
Thank you ❤️
Great job guys and loved the video 😘👍🏻💕💕🙏🏻🙏🏻
Good video. I don't hear anything about the chicken garden anymore. How is that working out?? I really appreciate all that your whole family is doing. See you on your next visit to all of us
I want to build an earthen home as much as anything, but unfortunately I have several debilitations that make it impossible (pinched nerves all over my spine, anemia, fibromyalgia, and psoriatic arthritis, oh and ME/CFS, of course...)
I started researching sustainable building and farming practices about 15 years ago and my plan was to build right in your neighborhood! We actually own several parcels just down the road to the south of your homestead! I also researched affordability and great weather, and right where you are is about as good as it gets!
Until then, we are in Ohio and have a little permaculture oasis in our small town lot (under .2 acres)
Thanks for sharing your journey!