Ignorable Details: Ollas
Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about building ollas for our geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
Feb 26, 20202 min read
Ignorable Details: End Walls
Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about framing the end walls on the east and west faces of our geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
Feb 26, 20204 min read
Ignorable Details: Lexan
Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about installing the Lexan on the north face of our geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
Feb 26, 20203 min read
Ignorable Details: Interior Siding
Here is everything you wanted to know (or didn't!) about installing the interior siding on the north face of our geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
Feb 26, 20203 min read
Greenhouse Catchup Summary
Here's a quick summary of the work Kimi & Chip did on their passive solar geothermal greenhouse in February!
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Kimi BrownKawa
Jan 29, 20204 min read
Taking Shape!
For the first time in their geothermal greenhouse building process, a task goes FASTER than Chip and Kimi expected.
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Kimi BrownKawa
Jan 28, 20203 min read
Frozen Beds
There's a reason folks aren't usually prepping garden beds in January...
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Kimi BrownKawa
Jan 26, 20205 min read
Power Struggle
Deciding on technology needed for homesteading tasks
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Kimi BrownKawa
Jan 25, 20203 min read
Fill 'er Up
The machine returns to save us hours of backbreaking labor!
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Kimi BrownKawa
Jan 22, 20203 min read
Wrap Up
Another baby step toward building our geothermal greenhouse, and a little more dreaming about what might eventually grow inside!
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Kimi BrownKawa
Jan 21, 20203 min read
Planting Plans
As the snow flurries outside, we hunker down and dream of subtropical fruits in our (pending) geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
Jan 13, 20203 min read
Concrete!
Our greenhouse build has been waiting for concrete: for me, a daunting hurdle! I have never done concrete work of any kind, and had a...
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Kimi BrownKawa
Dec 26, 20194 min read
Build That Wall!
Chip and Kimi work through the weather, holiday, and design decisions to build the retaining wall in their geothermal greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
Dec 18, 20193 min read
'Tis the Season
A weather-induced break from building lets us catch up on a few other aspects of life
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Kimi BrownKawa
Dec 14, 20193 min read
A Rock and a Hard Place
Artful excavation to complete geothermal tube placement for the BrownKawa Homestead greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
Dec 13, 20193 min read
One Day
Check out this one day's progress excavating geothermal trenches for the BrownKawa greenhouse!
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Kimi BrownKawa
Dec 12, 20193 min read
Roly Poly
Wrangling geothermal tubes for our solar greenhouse.
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Kimi BrownKawa
Dec 11, 20193 min read
How-To
Post holes, drainage tubes, and semi-trucks -- here are a few things you need to know to build a geothermal greenhouse on a desert mesa!
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Kimi BrownKawa
Dec 8, 20195 min read
Holy Moly!
Post holes for the BrownKawa greenhouse build.
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Kimi BrownKawa
Dec 3, 20192 min read
Digging In
Excavating to build an earth-bermed solar geothermal greenhouse.
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