People like him are whom i respect the most,i had a neighbor like him who passed from covid ,he had some space around and had planted all kinda of trees and grapes,and he had installed water system through pipes and had a huge pond near his house it was beautiful, sadly after he passed all the trees he had planted died because lack of water,nowadays his property is covered by thorns ,water he had on this property was taken why the neighbors ,its amazing what a working man can do
@@MartRichard-hm6hv…except for social security, highways, defense, medicare, medical research, hospitals, stabilizing the banking system, managing public lands, paying for large parts of the education system, etc, etc. So yeah, no help at all. /s
you are a fool if you think any government and especially this one is actually showing up for us in any of those sectors you mentioned- they poison us and then charge us to pay for our medicine with money we earned breaking our backs just so that corporations that own the gov can keep exploiting us and using us as pawns .. idk dawg shits iffy and you sound indoctrinated or blissfully ignorant.. not sure which @@rpdx3
I am in CO as well! This is such a dream of mine -- having a mountain greenhouse, farm, and be completely self-sustainable as much as possible. Thank you for sharing the magic.
I lived in Crawford for a few years but moved to an area closer to Telluride I feel blessed to live in one of the most beautiful areas in the lower 48s.
My cousins grew up in Panina, my uncle was a teacher. I remember when I was very young my uncle would bring loads of produce to sell at farmers markets every summer. I miss those days!
I wonder if he could adjust the microclimate to get better quality coffee beans. Are they really a lot of work to get to the green coffee bean stage (right before roasting?). I buy mine green & roast them here.
I can say from a place of knowledge, he designed and built this place exceptionally well. I a 3rd gen Coloradoan all too familiar with the high desert and have dreams of mine own simliar place, but more of an ecovillage/transitional town.
A genius grows what works in their climate. If someone in Hawaii put cold tolerant fruit trees in a refrigerator, in order to get them to work… it would be a silly waste of resources. Just like this lol Half his crops were doing nothing
@@KayaStar1 Well like he said he's not doing it for profit, just to experiment and have fun. I agree some of those plants looked a bit neglected though. I think the problem is more that than his climate, I've seen plenty of people on youtube grow tropical plants way out of their climate and they looked better than that. I've done it myself even, but on a much smaller scale with PVC hoophouses. I wouldn't go as far as genius but I applaud the man for living his dream. Also running a fridge is a LOT more power consumption than using using passive solar energy to make your plants viable so that's not really a fair comparison.
If you have more money than common sense you play and have fun but are unproductive. This guy would have a hard time surviving off of what fruit he produces. Just another example of how we americans live in a dream world and think we are living "the dream." O well have fun playing while you still can. As for me I'm using similar techniques to produce real food for myself and others. (Not for money) Just to live well.
He's retired, sounds like he has plenty of money from his previous career. What's wrong with a guy fucking around enjoying his retirement? I don't think he's trying to live off the land either. Making a hobby into a job is a good way to suck all the fun out of it.
Nice place you built. I came SO close to putting a south greenhouse on my place like you did when I was building my place, but elected to not do it because I couldn't figure a way of keeping the snow falling off the roof from smashing the greenhouse windows below. As I see, you came up with a super simple solution to that - just have the first few feet of the lower roof be metal roofing. Simple - elegant - and you got your greenhouse! Really nice place you made!
Not that I have the home now, but I had a home located in northern New York with a 12 x 15 sunroom with 28 tons of river rock under the concrete floor that PVC pipework as duct in it. We pretty much could heat the house with that. But I bought Washington Dwarf Orange tree that produced about 30-50 oranges a year with me doing manual pollination. Also grew pineapples that frankly were much better tasting than what you buy in the store. I didn't pick them until they turned yellow so they were supper juicy. Pineapples will actually send out shuts from the bottom after the pineapple is picked and I just broke them off and stuck them in the ground for the next harvest.
What a beautiful farm & home you created. The fruit & veggies look amazing. That river is beautiful & a great resource. Love the way you designed your home too. ❤
I adore the seating arrangement in the greenhouse! I also love the idea of having battery as a power storage for the farm too. Thank so much for the video.
If I would’ve known what it could be like, I would’ve done it 10yrs ago instead of 2020 (50yo). 100% with it. Don’t know what you don’t know until you know you didn’t know it.
Wow!! You can feel his passion & commitment in every word. So cool he's doing something like this. Never thought it was possible. Learning a lot. Thanks for sharing this story! ❤👏😃
This guy is so inspiring! My husband and I live at 9K feet in central Colorado and have a big greenhouse/garden but this guy has really got it figured out. I'd love to keep some year round things like this. Well done and thank you for video!
I adore the seating arrangement in the greenhouse! I also love the idea of having battery as a power storage for the farm too. Thank so much for the video.
This was very inspiring! Im in my mid 40s about to embark on a new venture. So cool to see someone that started over in his 50s and what he has created over 20 years.
Some have a dream for life. This is the closest I have seen in video to mine. For me it’s about the work put into it having a greater purpose and all of it being balanced and symbiotic.
Where i live, the sun is in the north. However you want to shade those windows as much as possible. Summer temperatures are 35-45°C. So you want to keep as much heat out of the house as possible. Deep winter really only lasts a month or so and rarely gets below zero
I lived out there for 8 months from spring to fall and I'll tell you I've never felt healthier. Clean air, good water, good food, lots of exercise. I'd walk down the mesa and hill to Paonia and Hotchkiss 4 miles.
@@The_Gallowglass can’t beat it, I got a few springs on my farm and our water tap is from a spring up Lamborn. I bring water with me anytime I go to visit big cities
I’m a little southeast of and have a slightly younger story line than Justy. This is inspiring and I couldn’t have made a better decision being here. It’s not for everyone all the time, but then again neither am I. 👍🏼
Olive trees in Greece and Italy start producing some olive already from 4-5 year, if they havent produced any so far please check if is a wild type that will never produce. If that is the case you can graft the tree.
The follow-up tour was amazing. He's ahead of me on a few projects and this was very useful to see. I'm considering a remodel on our home's southside for a passive solar tropical fruit room, I grow bananas, citrus, avocados, surinam cherry, etc. here in Oregon. I thought sweet potatoes were not an option due to cold but this gives me courage to try again.
Temps going from 120 degrees during day to 40 degrees at night sounds like a recipe for mold and mildew for some species. Impressive he is able to avoid this issue!
You should get him to do a plan or something, map out the basic design and see if you can remake or do more elsewhere? Many people might like to do the same, but do not have access to the design plans or understand how to build like this man or others. The only thing most may have issues with, the upkeep, pruning and paying attention to the whole setup would be a necessity unless you could design an automated system.
This is awesome! I own a coffee shop in Denver and would love to buy those coffee beans! Colorado grown coffee, something I never thought I would taste in my life!
Simple and effective thinking makes this man a genius. (Rarely do people know how to do both) From how I see it I would provide a bit of shade (ideally with trees) for the plants outside. Seems a bit overexposed to me. Non-tree plants often grow better and faster not receiving full daylight and wind.
I'm down in Pagosa. We have 3 Community Grow Domes, They have bananas and pineapples growing in one. I would love to have one and grow all those summer fruits.
I am so confused. So where does the solar come in to play for the greenhouse if he’s not heating with it? And he does heat it with wood like every five days correct? Because the Kirsten Dunst woman on UA-cam did a video of a man in South Dakota? Not really sure the state but way up there that he’s doing a greenhouse truly with no heating. But anyhow chickens love, Goji berries that’s why I’ve kept mine around.
I love to have grape vineyard olive Vinyard apple orchard n strawberry patches berry blue berry's I got peach sorbet blueberry growing now but just one bush
This is a great setup for winter but we have just the opposite problem here. Last summer was dry and a 100+ for over a month. It exhausted my rainwater storage and, literally, baked my plants to death.
Check out my latest video: Passive Greenhouse Feeds Family of 11 in Utah. ua-cam.com/video/dPOvAJbchY0/v-deo.html
Not adding up.......they never do.
This man is living the life. Wishing him many more long years.
When you design and build homes for a living you know exactly what you want. This dudes house is probably better build than 99% of the homes today.
People like him are whom i respect the most,i had a neighbor like him who passed from covid ,he had some space around and had planted all kinda of trees and grapes,and he had installed water system through pipes and had a huge pond near his house it was beautiful, sadly after he passed all the trees he had planted died because lack of water,nowadays his property is covered by thorns ,water he had on this property was taken why the neighbors ,its amazing what a working man can do
Just bought 40 acres in Colorado's high desert! Can't wait to make it look like this!
Nice where at?
@@StefanoCreatinilet me guess, the San Luis valley 😊
Paonia!@@justinsane7128
love the gun owners out there@@justinsane7128
@@justinsane7128 That place is a dead zone, lol
This guy is living the dream. Awesome. He looks great for his age too.
Inspirational setup. Living his best life. He seems happy.
Dude looks great for 75! Amazing what movement, good clean food, sunlight, and a positive outlook can do over the decades.
Couldn't agree more!
My grandfather is 95... he gardened until he was 91...
It would be awesome if the U.S. could establish hundreds of these set-ups so we would be truly self-sustaining year-round, no matter what happens!
Our government would never make money, and sadly, that's the only thing the US government wants.
Not even that, just any country that can't grow year round
The government does not want to help you, hello
@@MartRichard-hm6hv…except for social security, highways, defense, medicare, medical research, hospitals, stabilizing the banking system, managing public lands, paying for large parts of the education system, etc, etc. So yeah, no help at all. /s
you are a fool if you think any government and especially this one is actually showing up for us in any of those sectors you mentioned- they poison us and then charge us to pay for our medicine with money we earned breaking our backs just so that corporations that own the gov can keep exploiting us and using us as pawns .. idk dawg shits iffy and you sound indoctrinated or blissfully ignorant.. not sure which @@rpdx3
I am in CO as well! This is such a dream of mine -- having a mountain greenhouse, farm, and be completely self-sustainable as much as possible. Thank you for sharing the magic.
It all starts with a dream. I just bought my farm after being broke 3 year ago. Releasing video on that soon
It’s beautiful down by the river. This area has changed so much and has become unaffordable for many, sadly. Enjoyed the video.
Thanks, that is sadly true. Its hard to buy in Paonia now.
I lived in Crawford for a few years but moved to an area closer to Telluride
I feel blessed to live in one of the most beautiful areas in the lower 48s.
Lived there when I was younger,Picked fruit every year ,paid for our own school clothes and supplies. Loved it there!
Pretty much all of north America has become unaffordable for the middle class or poor.
My cousins grew up in Panina, my uncle was a teacher. I remember when I was very young my uncle would bring loads of produce to sell at farmers markets every summer. I miss those days!
Love the seating area in the greenhouse! I'd spend my mornings there drinking a coffee and enjoying the view ☕🌄
Me too!!
I wonder if he could adjust the microclimate to get better quality coffee beans. Are they really a lot of work to get to the green coffee bean stage (right before roasting?). I buy mine green & roast them here.
This is one of the most beautiful gardens I ever seen in a greenhouse .❤
Absolutely awe-inspiring. The world could use many more people like this.
I can say from a place of knowledge, he designed and built this place exceptionally well. I a 3rd gen Coloradoan all too familiar with the high desert and have dreams of mine own simliar place, but more of an ecovillage/transitional town.
you got this!
We are not "coloradoan" we are Coloradan.
Nice set up, tropical fruit trees and year round tomatoes , I'd enjoy that!
Yay! Love this. We micro farm on 2/3 acre in New Castle with 21 fruit trees, table grapes, huge garden, and 18 laying hens.
good for you guys
This guy is a genius it’s cool he worked to make his dream come true what a beautiful place
Bad ass Dad
A genius grows what works in their climate. If someone in Hawaii put cold tolerant fruit trees in a refrigerator, in order to get them to work… it would be a silly waste of resources. Just like this lol
Half his crops were doing nothing
@@KayaStar1 Well like he said he's not doing it for profit, just to experiment and have fun. I agree some of those plants looked a bit neglected though. I think the problem is more that than his climate, I've seen plenty of people on youtube grow tropical plants way out of their climate and they looked better than that. I've done it myself even, but on a much smaller scale with PVC hoophouses. I wouldn't go as far as genius but I applaud the man for living his dream.
Also running a fridge is a LOT more power consumption than using using passive solar energy to make your plants viable so that's not really a fair comparison.
If you have more money than common sense you play and have fun but are unproductive. This guy would have a hard time surviving off of what fruit he produces. Just another example of how we americans live in a dream world and think we are living "the dream." O well have fun playing while you still can. As for me I'm using similar techniques to produce real food for myself and others. (Not for money) Just to live well.
He's retired, sounds like he has plenty of money from his previous career. What's wrong with a guy fucking around enjoying his retirement? I don't think he's trying to live off the land either. Making a hobby into a job is a good way to suck all the fun out of it.
He’s done a great job developing that house, greenhouse & land. Thanks for sharing!
Very inspirational! Love seeing all the hard work he put into it, and he looks great for his age!
Nice place you built. I came SO close to putting a south greenhouse on my place like you did when I was building my place, but elected to not do it because I couldn't figure a way of keeping the snow falling off the roof from smashing the greenhouse windows below. As I see, you came up with a super simple solution to that - just have the first few feet of the lower roof be metal roofing. Simple - elegant - and you got your greenhouse! Really nice place you made!
This is wonderful! Very happy for this man and his wife. I always loved Colorado and lived near Durango decades ago. Thank You for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it
Fascinating man, would listen to him talk about anything.
same!
Not that I have the home now, but I had a home located in northern New York with a 12 x 15 sunroom with 28 tons of river rock under the concrete floor that PVC pipework as duct in it. We pretty much could heat the house with that. But I bought Washington Dwarf Orange tree that produced about 30-50 oranges a year with me doing manual pollination. Also grew pineapples that frankly were much better tasting than what you buy in the store. I didn't pick them until they turned yellow so they were supper juicy. Pineapples will actually send out shuts from the bottom after the pineapple is picked and I just broke them off and stuck them in the ground for the next harvest.
This guy is incredibly wise, on all accounts.
That's my dad!
Jess, ur place is amazing! The world is a better place with people like u 2 in it & we can all learn so much from you! TY! Love the farm tour!
That refrigerator he built is the most impressive part.
Now this is incredible
In Australia here, this is brilliant and something I desperately want to do in the very near future. X
What a beautiful farm & home you created. The fruit & veggies look amazing. That river is beautiful & a great resource. Love the way you designed your home too. ❤
I am so glad you kept the passion alive. Around the 8min mark hit me in the heart.
True American hero
I adore the seating arrangement in the greenhouse! I also love the idea of having battery as a power storage for the farm too. Thank so much for the video.
The only problem with the seating in the greenhouse is that you only have about an hour between too cool and too hot.
Dude is living my dream😮
Same!
Don’t give up on your dream❤
@@Mercedes65 I’m still young 😊
If I would’ve known what it could be like, I would’ve done it 10yrs ago instead of 2020 (50yo). 100% with it.
Don’t know what you don’t know until you know you didn’t know it.
Try to make your dreams come true in 20 years
The 12 years old swiss chard is crazy! I didn't know they would live that long
Wow!! You can feel his passion & commitment in every word. So cool he's doing something like this. Never thought it was possible. Learning a lot. Thanks for sharing this story! ❤👏😃
Its incredibly practical to do!
Absolutely! 👍
Seems like that gentleman can teach us alot.
This guy is so inspiring! My husband and I live at 9K feet in central Colorado and have a big greenhouse/garden but this guy has really got it figured out. I'd love to keep some year round things like this. Well done and thank you for video!
Your welcome! I got a few other greenhouse videos that use passive designs as well
Thank you for sharing and also to Justy. Thats how we should all live. The world would be a better place.
Couldn't agree more!
We can't all live like this BC there's not enough land on earth unfortunately.
I adore the seating arrangement in the greenhouse! I also love the idea of having battery as a power storage for the farm too. Thank so much for the video.
Thanks for watching and commenting
This was very inspiring! Im in my mid 40s about to embark on a new venture. So cool to see someone that started over in his 50s and what he has created over 20 years.
What a cool place.
quite warm actually
This guy is a genius. Now i can dig my potatoes 🥔 found the slip growing on the sidewalk on my street in Southern fl
Great one, what I like is that you always learn something new with videos like these. There is always something new, like the coolbot thingy.
Thank you so much for sharing.
What a dream! This video inspires me to try my green thumb and maybe put up a greenhouse.
I wanna be like this man when I grow up.
Some have a dream for life. This is the closest I have seen in video to mine. For me it’s about the work put into it having a greater purpose and all of it being balanced and symbiotic.
Great video! Really enjoyed the tour, Justy's place is awesome.
thanks, Justy was happy to share
Our olives produced the second year. Very little but I believe they need to be cross pollinated. Our neighbors have one too.
Awesome inspiring video and a great teacher to boot. Beautiful setup!
This is a recurring daydream of mine. So cool to see someone actually do it.
I live in CO near brighton area. I would love to learn how to grow things year round
Beautiful homestead and very creative design well done sir!
Amazing. You can create your own microclimate wherever you are. There is NO need to ship produce across the ocean.. polluting the oceans.
So great! Wish I could come here
Freedom is what I see!!!
Love the hard yards ✌️❤️
What a dream house in a dream location!
Where i live, the sun is in the north. However you want to shade those windows as much as possible. Summer temperatures are 35-45°C. So you want to keep as much heat out of the house as possible. Deep winter really only lasts a month or so and rarely gets below zero
I lived out there for 8 months from spring to fall and I'll tell you I've never felt healthier. Clean air, good water, good food, lots of exercise. I'd walk down the mesa and hill to Paonia and Hotchkiss 4 miles.
Its paradise out here. As we say, close the door on the way in =)
@@StefanoCreatini Friends old man was on the canal board. We got fresh mountain water unfiltered. Best water I ever drank. The taste and minerals
@@The_Gallowglass can’t beat it, I got a few springs on my farm and our water tap is from a spring up Lamborn. I bring water with me anytime I go to visit big cities
@@StefanoCreatini I woke up every morning and had my coffee while sitting in an outhouse looking at Mount lamborn from across the valley. Stucker mesa
This was one of the most inspirational videos I’ve seen all year.
Impressive operation! He's a smart guy!
This is a beautiful dream!
Great video as always, keep 'em coming!
Thanks! Always appreciate your feedback
This is awesome 👏 🎉🎉
😊❤loved it great video and lots of great info
Thanks so much!
I’m a little southeast of and have a slightly younger story line than Justy. This is inspiring and I couldn’t have made a better decision being here. It’s not for everyone all the time, but then again neither am I. 👍🏼
You have to trim the olive tree in order to get fruit. The energy of the plant is still making branches, trim on the waxing moon.
Wow! This was amazing! Thank you, for what you do❤
Olive trees in Greece and Italy start producing some olive already from 4-5 year, if they havent produced any so far please check if is a wild type that will never produce. If that is the case you can graft the tree.
The follow-up tour was amazing. He's ahead of me on a few projects and this was very useful to see. I'm considering a remodel on our home's southside for a passive solar tropical fruit room, I grow bananas, citrus, avocados, surinam cherry, etc. here in Oregon. I thought sweet potatoes were not an option due to cold but this gives me courage to try again.
WOW. this is beyond awesome. 😊
Great video! Thank you for the tour, Justy!
Grafted sweet sweet kumquats are amazing
1:30 "I have a hard time taking something out once I put it in"
me too my friend lmfao
Thats some real Patrick Pacard Stuff (Old German TV Series with a scientist growing pineapples on a glacier in norway)
Super.
how does he keep it warm in the winter? it's going to freeze 1 hr after sundown.
What a dream!
I love everything about this video❣️
Temps going from 120 degrees during day to 40 degrees at night sounds like a recipe for mold and mildew for some species. Impressive he is able to avoid this issue!
You would be surprised!
This is amazing! Remarkable
You should get him to do a plan or something, map out the basic design and see if you can remake or do more elsewhere?
Many people might like to do the same, but do not have access to the design plans or understand how to build like this man or others.
The only thing most may have issues with, the upkeep, pruning and paying attention to the whole setup would be a necessity unless you could design an automated system.
Everything he used to make this greenhouse is from a book 1970s called the Passive Solar Energy Book, You can find on amazon , amzn.to/3Vp4BiK
@@StefanoCreatini cool.
This is awesome! I own a coffee shop in Denver and would love to buy those coffee beans! Colorado grown coffee, something I never thought I would taste in my life!
Which shop?
Chicory coffee might work but probably won’t sell much lol
Simple and effective thinking makes this man a genius. (Rarely do people know how to do both)
From how I see it I would provide a bit of shade (ideally with trees) for the plants outside. Seems a bit overexposed to me. Non-tree plants often grow better and faster not receiving full daylight and wind.
just bought 15 acres in central michigan. This is part of my plan.
Totally agree on the pesto question!
I'm down in Pagosa. We have 3 Community Grow Domes, They have bananas and pineapples growing in one. I would love to have one and grow all those summer fruits.
Wow not garden but a big farm amazing green farm
I am so confused. So where does the solar come in to play for the greenhouse if he’s not heating with it? And he does heat it with wood like every five days correct? Because the Kirsten Dunst woman on UA-cam did a video of a man in South Dakota? Not really sure the state but way up there that he’s doing a greenhouse truly with no heating. But anyhow chickens love, Goji berries that’s why I’ve kept mine around.
Greenhouse is unheated, excess heat’s goes to heat his main house. He uses wood stove for his main house
we don't heat the greenhouse at all. just the house when it is cloudy
aww man this is cool as hell, he did a kick ass job!
1:34 As a father of 9, I carry this same sentiment. Stay strong, soldier. ✊️
What an incredible man
I love to have grape vineyard olive Vinyard apple orchard n strawberry patches berry blue berry's I got peach sorbet blueberry growing now but just one bush
I wish he had explained more about how the green room is getting so hot and keeping the heat. Is it purely greenhouse effect and insulating?
Yes, greenhouse traps heat from sun
Doesn't make sense that it can keep the heat in overnight though. Especially doesn't make sense it could heat the house overnight
This is a great setup for winter but we have just the opposite problem here. Last summer was dry and a 100+ for over a month. It exhausted my rainwater storage and, literally, baked my plants to death.
It doesn't work in the South. You need wrap around porches
Great vlog thanks
Red delish happen to be my favorite apples.
Happy growing from Wisconsin just started my banana plants year ago and few pineapple plants
Those purple morning glories grow like weeds in my yard! I’d love to have those pink ones too