Fascinating Off-Grid Home Built with Natural & Salvaged Materials - Eco Village Living
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Freya's House is an off-grid green building that showcases multiple natural building techniques from straw bale, cob, and rammed earth walls, to earthen floors, a green roof, and reclaimed, salvaged and locally sourced materials. It uses solar power for electricity, a legal composting toilet, and on-site greywater filtration.
The house is located at O.U.R Ecovillage in Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada which is a 25-acre Regenerative Living Demonstration, Research Center, and Bioregional School that hosts a land-based permaculture learning community. The O.U.R. vision is "sustainable well-being for the land, ourselves, and our worldwide village."
You can follow and find out more about O.U.R. Ecovillage here:
ourecovillage.org/
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A huge thank you to Brandy for taking the time to share this project with us, and to Alex for filming it :)
Thanks for watching!
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Filming Credits: Alex Harris
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Thanks for watching! You can follow and find out more about O.U.R. Ecovillage here:
ourecovillage.org/
facebook.com/O.U.R.Eco
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It sounds cool but if you don't live near the dump what's the gas costs?
What a grounded calm woman giving us a tour of a grounded calm beautiful earthen home. ❤
This housing model is excellent. The natural materials are fantastic, but the co-operative model is what we need more of in Canada. Like she said, "less commodity and more sustainability."😊😊
This touches the deep of my ❤ our future for those of us who want to live in harmony with Mother Earth, Nature 💕❤️🕯☮️
I'm so happy you enjoyed checking out this hybrid home. It was really interesting to see how they incorporated so many different natural building materials! Thanks for watching :)
Yes living in harmony with our heavenly Father and His creation.
It makes me cry the way she says this three bedroom house is considered small there. It looks like a spacious castle out of my dreams. What a wonderful home and community and mindset.
This video was filmed by Alex Harris, and she's got some great videos about ducks and basket-making here:
instagram.com/alexrooted/
www.youtube.com/@alexrooted
Thank you, friends 💚 Always such a pleasure working with you!!
I'm still in shock a composting toilet was "illegal", wtf? Common sense isn't very common. Bravo for a job well done 👍, this is how it's supposed to be, zero waste homes and foundations for our families 💚
Its canada what do you expect the politicians there would love if they could regulate how many times you can fart in a day
Just to add canadians are being stripped of their rights fast
God bless them and help them
They, the state, are trying to have everything under their control, even toilets. For example, in the future, there will be control over how fast you breathe because CO2😂.
Composting toilets never were "illegal". But prior to the change you were not allowed to have composting toilets as the only or primary means of sewage treatment. Simple as that. No building permit without a septic system or sewer connection.
I swear, in my (U.S.) county they don't want to approve any build unless it resembles 1960s suburban living. sh*tty tract house made out of sh*tty "new" (wood, concrete, petroleum products) materials, and all the "waste" water going to a septic. Except where I live it might be considered high desert with lots of scrub brush and well water; how many sh*t tract houses with flushing toilets do they think can be built before the groundwater's depleted (and good luck trying to collect rainwater with them watching)?
I just met a couple who, when they were buying their house, the county found out the previous owners had diverted all the sinks/showers/laudry water to the garden, and made them redivert it back to the septic because there might be a "contamination" issue
@@FearMyLadyBitsI would love to divert my waste water to the garden. It’s so practical when you grow vegetables and such.
What a beautiful home
Thanks for watching :)
I’m amazed at the possibilities.
Videos like this inspire us all to build and to live outside the proscribed boundaries imposed by society.
What’s amazing is what’s possible.
Thanks for watching! I totally agree, it's always so inspiring to meet people like Brandy and see what they've created :)
if only life could be this way...i wish we could live more like this
Amazing home you have.
Thanks for watching :)
@@ExploringAlternatives Yw.
That's just Soo cool. Not just a house but more like a community.
Yes for sure, we wish we could've spent more time talking about the eco village...we might just have to do a follow up! But you can also check out their website to find out more about what they do. Thanks for watching :)
Oh I do love community living and wish we had it in Oz... I love the cob, straw bale and rammed earth aspects.. the colours in the latter are breath-taking. Thankyou for showing us around its wonderful cheers from Western Australia
Great video! Thanks so much. It has some ideas I haven't encountered before like the chimneys from the greenhouse into the second floor.
Cette vidéo donne matière à réflexion.
C'est très instructif.
Thank you for sharing.
Merci :)
Exterior is beautiful!
Stunningly beautiful!
Thank you! Cheers!
Way to go !
Love the beauty and simplicity of the area. So very much...
love this lady, beautiful work!
I used to visit here all the time and I miss it!!!! this place is amazing!
You’re lucky. I’ve been to Vancouver many times, from Toronto, and even to the island a couple of times. Always wanted to see Salt Spring ....
Such a beautiful home! Who wouldn't love to be surrounded by those wooden beams. Love it, great job guys!
Thanks so much! Happy you enjoyed the tour :)
This is the real deal thanks for sharing
What an amazingly beautiful community you are part of. Such a beautiful area and all your homes are just so special. Bravo for the innovation and peace you have found. Lucky people ❤
You’ve a beautiful eco house! I would like see your eco village community.
My like was #570 n after reading the comments now is #832(!!!!)
Thank u 4 sharing it!
This was so interesting and educational. We really like that they use reclaimed materials. So cool. Thanks so much Matt and Danielle ❤
Wow Amazing 😮
This just capturesd my attention and imagination in so many ways. The combination of different eco-building methods in one dwelling is just fantastic. On my next trip to the Island I will definitely check into this further. The values and approaches they're talking about here are just so timely.
Y'all could get a Saw Mill kit and process your own wood. Another off grid home here on YT is so far out in nature that they have to bring everything by boat to their area. They're trying to leave as little of a footprint as they can so the got a wood mill. I don't know, just an idea🤷♀️
Just wow!!!! I wish I could go there and just learn. This excites me so very much. I grateful you took the time to to share this, thank you very much. Loving kindness
What a beautiful and well thought out community. Thank you for this video and to Brandy for sharing such important information in designing a building with natural materials that allows for greatest natural heating as well as natural cooling. I have never heard of or seen many of the features she shows us in this video. A great model for others to consider when designing buildings and communities off-grid.
As an architect with significant green, leaning values.
I complement you on your beautiful manifestation.
wow... so amazing and inspiring! thank you!
I'd love to learn from this women. She sounds so knowledgeable
So cool, in my dreams
What a beautiful home you’ve made for yourself. I bet it is so beautiful there. It must be strange to come back and deal with modern life. Thank you for letting us see your world. Kathy.
Love this urban ecovillage
I have watched this video before 🥰 ILoved it then I love it now especially the purple French doors so cool o hope all your families and geonology live therecoo😊😊😊
My respect to the matriarch. When can I move in?
Absolutely beautiful homes!
Living on the west coast myself, I can tell you that house would be ultra dark in the rainy season.
I thought the entire west coast was dark in rainy season. I don’t know if I could survive out there, I don’t ‘get’ rain.
@@62Cristoforo My point is that the rainy season is already gloomy. The way the house is constructed would minimize any natural light that might come through.
Beautiful place
Thanks for visiting
Amazingly beautiful home. Would have love a look around the communal areas as well.
beautiful!!!
Wow! one of my favorite homes and land designs
Amazing permaculture design.. very well thought through 💚
THIS IS TRUELY MY LIFE STYLE
What an interesting way to live life! I really like the end result and the end results!
My suspicion is, this had to be wicked expensive. I hand-built my own house, using many of the concepts shown and I'm here to tell you, "It weren't cheap!"
It’s hard to know what these people mean by “cheap”, and “expensive”, such relative terms. But since a lot of the structure is from salvaged timber I’m sure they saved a lot.
Fantastic video! Love the vibe and the combination of building techniques
Thank you! Cheers!
LOVE it all!!!
❤ wow
I love videos about eco-villages, and seeing the creativity and different styles that people come up with for building, and dealing with energy, waste water, human waste, etc. (Though perhaps in these cases they really aren't "waste-d" like we do in most settings. Thanks for sharing this interesting eco-village!
Very interesting and quite lovely. Like a grown up hippie dream. 😍
Fasinating & educational how one can use recycled material , and become self sustaining I love to learn more about this I believe it is better for our enviroment to do what these folks are accomplishing . and it look's awesome .wouldnt it be nice to spend a few weeks out there for the learning experience .
This is life
congratulations, very good. thanks for sharing, this Permaculture design is fantastic, you took advantage of it very well, we noticed that the observation and study was very well applied.
Would really like to see more self-sustainable urban ecovillage's..
I'm critical of all the posers on this channel, but this is really good.
☀️💚🌱
The last part made me wonder: today's world is so 8jter connected and with so much to see, I would not even think a place as beautiful as this necessarily can hold generations. Or maybe they would want return to it after a little exploring. But maybe rather than generations of the same family living in it, the concept may work more for changes of families living their generation after generation. Each in what's the right time and situation for them to seek that type of place and life
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And that's how u do it,
Thank you for the inspiration. Would love to visit a while and learn.
I marvel at the wood: how is that made/obtained? Did you learn carpenting?
I Southern/Western Europe I would not know how to get such large wooden beams without paying a lot of money
Curious about that common building!
I wish she opened the "fridge". Was there a regular fridge behind it or something like a restaurant walk in fridge?
I would definitely build my own place with very large roof overhangs, as these people have, here. I’m interested in building a place with a more gradual or intermediary division between inside the house and the outside; porches, gazebos, overhangs, mud rooms, that sort of thing.
Hello all
Any issues with mold or condensation on the interior, given the different wall materials used?
I would love to live there ❤😊
Definitely looks like it would be pretty neat! Thanks for checking out the tour :)
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😢where did you purchase compost toilet?
When can I move in??
So what would the cost be for this
What is French strawbale?
Where did you get the heavy rubber liner for your green roof?
Probably it's synthetic rubber but natural rubber can be used and comes mostly from trees. Lots of plants make latex (rubber) but are difficult to harvest economically.
@@nunya___ Right. We often have to make bad decisions because what we need is available elsewhere, but not here. Or is just too expensive. Some people use layers of old carpets.
What does she contribute to the Village?
They put their daughter's name on the building permit? Isn't that illegal?
I didn't know Lisa Lampenelli was into off-grid living 😏.
Grreat house, but another name for wind fallen timber, is habitat.
Great vid, but sad that the woman presenting doesn't understand modern solar.
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I'm a Northern European. I can assure Kirsten Dirkson et. al. that it's not possible to reach levels of ingenuity nor autonomy in creating novel houses or eco-villages unless you should be inherited filthy rich, here where I live. There are laws in place here that makes it mostly illegal to salvage or recycle materials by yourself, at least from recycling stations! All things must be bought in stores and many stores are under cartel control with fixed high prices. Especially for food. On top of that we are politically compliant as a vasall state to the US economy in reality paying dividends for US "protection". That means we are not free to trade eastwards towards Russia for cheap energy either. Although my country is rich in renewables as well as fossil resources cartels are jacking up prices to levels above the prices for mid-Europe on our domestic markets. We are forced to do all our transactions financialized under Wall Street and all the investment cockroach funds. There seems to be a policy to drive working people into early disability retirement by heavy exploitation and inducing their bad health outcomes. Still the downtrodden in the US may suffer more, well yes, and that is because here we have a so called "wellfare state". That does not mean empowering people, but making them clients from early in life. We do survive on what for many already has become the de facto reality of Universal Basic Income, and people are afraid to lose even this, as the road towards self sufficiency has been solidly rendered impossible by the behemoth state.
Micah 5:3-4
King James Version
3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. Gods blessings are over you happy sunday
Same old wine in a new bottle. Overbuilt, overpriced and a long way to go towards any new thinking. Ephemeralization is what we need. New materials, methods, designs and new ways of thinking is what is needed. Following this thought train on out, putting panels on the Pentagon makes it cool
the "made in china" solar panels seam very natural.....
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