I Learned How to Grow ORANGES in the SNOW from a 89-Year Old Man!
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2021
- For a while now I've heard rumors of a gentleman in Nebraska who grows citrus in his greenhouse... I assumed it was the stuff of urban legend UNTIL we had the chance to tour his operation last week. You gotta see this! CLICK SHOW MORE
🍊 A HUGE thank you to Mr. Russ Finch and Greenhouse in the Snow for the tour and inspiration!
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*What impressed me MORE than this man being able to do this -- ls that it gives him purpose and drive.* _Age does not have to mean you grow old~_
I love how he began to pursue that hobby after retiring from the post office at 65. Almost 90 and still designing and building geothermal greenhouses that incorporates new ideas and making the design concept better. Could he add beekeeping to increase his levels of plant fertilization, and raise more flowers to create a bigger honey harvest? Stay tuned to find out, or build your own geothermal greenhouse and let us know how it turned out for you.
Sharing his wisdom with interested youth keeps him going as well.
It's always The Old timers that you learn from they've been thru Hard times, So combine their knowledge with today's technology & you have Mr.Russ There.. it's just being willing to learn from them, Pass The Knowledge down, then run with it ❤❤❤ thank you for Sharing!! God Bless You & Merry Christmas! To you & Your Family
Amen
He just grows wiser! I would love to pick his brain!
I'm 62 , husband is 65. And our kids range from 38 , 36, 33 and 11yrs old. And we are beginner homesteaders but never late than never. Love your videos
Awesome!
Your success will teach your children, grandchildren and all future generations. I wish u best
God bless this man. This is how America should be innovating and finding a new way of life; keep inventing and keep changing lives. I am amazed.
True! We’d love to make this a reality on our farm
America, and the rest of the world!
We will get there. There’s going to be some positive changes. This is fabulous! Wish I was fifty years younger.
First we must get rid of the politicians who keeps on putting up a lot of nonsensical and frivolous regulations against such inventive and innovative people.
@@darthvader5300 Agriculture is destroying the planet. It is very frustrating how much miss information there is on this topic. Grazing can actually sequester far more carbon than forests at a much, much faster rate. If we grazed animals on a large enough scale, we could actually mitigate all human emissions. Growing plants can not do this. Plant agriculture uses massive amounts of fossil fuels and unlike grazing cattle, it doesn't mitigate its own emissions. The soil microbiome is killed with chemicals and that dead soil is lost rapidly, causing complete land infertility and desertification. Grazing animals is the fastest way to replenish these lands, bring the microbes back, give nutrients back, rehydrate, break up impaction, and build soil faster than any other process. It would take nature decades to build the amount of soil made in a couple of yrs of Grazing.
Oh, the precious knowledge that our elders have to share...it must not be lost with them...
Start a movement to set up a fund raising program to create a mini-school near this man's house and RECORD EVERYTHING THAT HE IS SAYING, TEACHING, DEMONSTRATING, WHAT HE HAS WRITTEN, COPYING ALL OF HIS PHOTOGRAPHS, ETC inorder to set up an archival library-school and make as many duplicate copies of all recordings. And PRACTICE what he has been teaching and doing those years. I know money is hard in your country but it is worth the sacrifice.
@@darthvader5300 Yes, money is tight in the U.S...my country sucks. We meddle in every other country's business, but don't take care of our own citizens.
Ukraine needs our help and they are worth it.
@@sharity3289 You don't have to tell me. I live in Canada. We are sleeping with an elephant! Just teasing! Please don't take this the wrong way. God bless the USA (and Canada too.)
Amen!
I watched a documentary about this project some years ago and I'm glad to see the old fella is still going. He started experimenting with this AFTER retiring. What a great contribution to future generations.
I want a house inside of one of these geothermal greenhouses and pretend it’s summer all year round. It’s my happy thought.🌿
I love your happy thought😍
Just move to Florida :)
I live in Texas. That summer all year long place ain't that happy.
@@andrew-rp7uy ick
We have a passive solar house. They’re quite the concept!
I saw a story on him years ago and thought what an awesome idea. Would love to do this. And it’s not ditching school... it’s the enhanced version 😂
not ditching THE WORLD IS OUR SCHOOL!!!
Exactly
It is a field trip
I saw this too, bet he had no idea how much attention he would be getting
Makes the kids smile when they say, "ditching school for the day" though. 😃
Jill's life goal: to walk out of the house into an attached greenhouse barefoot!! I agree with you!!
YES!
Me too!
Second the Motion...Yes, barefoot in winter straight into your Greenhouse!!! LifeGoal!!!
Wouldn't it be cool if towns of the future were like this? Like earthship style
@@theprairiehomestead did you guys opt to use this method? We are looking into this! We are loving you channel and learning so much..thank you for your content.❤️🌺🤙🏼
We are n Nebraska. Our head Pastor just took a trip over to tour his greenhouse and get details. Our church in Kearney now has plans to build this greenhouse. How awesome. We all need one. 🙂
Many years ago, I worked for a nursery, and they had several greenhouses that were built in WWII, to save money heating them. This was in New Jersey. They were basically dug into the ground, with glass roofs. We grew citrus and bananas in one. No additional heat was used, and in the Summer white wash was sprayed on the glass roof to prevent it from getting too hot in them. Everything old is new again, I suppose.
They add a very thick layer of titanium dioxide on top of a newly formed EMERGING sheet of glass emerging from a float glass furnace while it is still in the process of slowly solidifying so that the titanium dioxide will diffuse sunlight in sufficient amounts so as to prevent the other side in the interior from overheating or becoming too hot.
Where in NJ? North western NJ? Near the CCC camps?
What a fascinating tour! In regular school I believe that is called a "field trip" and you get credit for a full day, lol
Heat houses or theses greenhouses are all over the Scandinavian region. The most productive farming units are based off of these units. They can run circles around American farming techniques without carcinogenic pesticides or ground water destructive fertilizers. Hopefully more people will follow.
The man stated that the only "pesticide" he uses is Agricultural oil ( mineral oil mixed with water) and he said they use very very little fertilizer if any.
You have totally missed the point. Hot houses are also used over here in Poland, but what he offers is low cost of heating in winter and the ability to grow citrus trees. I do wonder tho. The experts on citrus claim that citrus trees need low temps in winter, ab 10 degrees. 15 degrees must affect their health, and lower temps must affect other plants eg tomatoes.
Hahah American farming?!?! There’s millions of Americans and you think we all “farm” the same…. Go eat ice dip 💩
I don't think anyone wants advice from Scandinavian people lol. You guys are so out of touch.
Destructive fertilisers lol. Try living in Australia were the soil is poor and it needs them. Or the bs about pesticides. Lol
Oh yes it's America that is the problem....so no other country in the world uses fertilizers? Farms in vast fields with ground water? At least here we have the EPA... does China? Does Russia? Does Ukraine? Tired of this "Scandinavian is better" argument...
I’m sketching a plan now. And finally found a builder to help me finalize my thoughts. Going to build a geothermal house and attached greenhouse in the Ozarks. And yes, I’d like to walk barefoot to the greenhouse too.
I was actually wearing my Old Fashioned on Purpose Tshirt when I met the builder. 😉.
God willing by next winter I could be moving forward on this dream. 🙏🏻
lucky dog!
Definitely start a channel many people would love to see the start to finishes and beyond, random question is your family from south africa ? Deboer is a very Afrikaans surename reason I ask is if you are id live to know pricing and so on.
@Tara DeBoer, I also encourage you to start a channel or a blog. I'm in the 'zarks, too, and agree it would be lovely to walk barefoot into a greenhouse on the days when ice shuts everything down.
All the best on your project!
This motivates me
Fabulous! Keep us posted!
I gotta tell, when I watch you guys with your kids, there’s hope for America yet I love how I have not seen an iPhone or iPad in their hands yet and they are well involved and eager to take part in everything from the growing to the killing and processing of the chickens my heart swells! God bless you guys.
I agree and what a beautiful family, so blessed to be on the RIGHT path and all together united in their goals and lifestyle.
In other words, normal kids.
In other words, the healthy pre-9/11, pre-smartphones, pre-social media 1990’s childhood that I had.
@@30AndHatingIt An unburdened childhood. I guess "normal" sounds too quaint.
That’s because they are using them to record this 🤣🤣🤣
What a wealth of wisdom and knowledge, he deserves the utmost respect and patience while in his presence.
This is my first year of selling starter plants, so far I have planted over 1600 seeds, I have a big greenhouse, several raised beds and a new hugelkultur that gets planted this year.
I love watching your videos and pray my crops do as well as yours. I have planted my own seeds for about 5 years.
Geothermal is amazing. What an interesting set up. He sounds like Johnny Cash. 😊
Wow! That’s who he sounds like! Couldn’t place it.
Can I say you can tell this man is loved so much. His family is there watching over him and that is an amazing sight because it is so rare these days.
Definitely one of the coolest things I've seen for homesteading and preparedness. Growing citrus in Nebraska!
This. Is. FASCINATING!!!!! What a food growing wonderland in February in Nebraska!! I’m just so amazed!
That is just brilliant! My entire childhood goal was to grow up and marry a Farmer because I just loved the idea of farmlife 😄 but since that didn't happen I'm doing everything I can on my own to at least do the hobby farm and I have concentrated on chickens but I did buy a nice 26 ft. greenhouse last year with the intention of doing something special with it and this would have been perfect but those dang Ohio winds destroyed it and blew it onto my neighbor's property so this Spring I am going to try my best to repair the frame and if I can do it THIS is my plan!
That was the most amazing thing I have witnessed perhaps in my life. This gentleman is a sacred holder of knowledge in the rarest way. What a treasure. Thank you for this mind expanding experience. It's time to take the homestead to the next level. God bless you and your family. I homestead in TN.
An absolute wealth of real and practical knowledge. Great video Jill.
So much to learn from our elders, thank you for sharing this information sir.
Before my dad had honeybee hives, he would hand pollinate two gardens and an orchard (he also had a full-time government job. The gardens and orchard were his sanity)
I just sent this video to my dad because we've been talking about setting up a big green house and how to make it as cost/energy efficient as possible. This was a great field trip and opportunity to learn from the community. ❤
It's nice to a man that still has his wisdom & able to speak loud enough to hear him. Thanks for the road trip
So fascinating Jill; thank you for taking us along and a huge graciousness to the gentleman who invented the greenhouse ideas. More of us should be utilizing this concept of farming; especially since there are concerns with energy, land and resources.
This Man's knowledge is INCREDIBLE. ... He should do a TED Talk about sustainable living and self sufficiency. ... He's a MASTER.
Wow this is so cool! Christian looks SOOOOO excited
Wow, I love amazing old guys like him. Ahead of the curve, at almost 90, very cool.
This guy is awesome, so is his greenhouse and trees inside a G H...that's a very large private GH , he has alot of knowledge, we could all learn from him ... that was cool for your family and friend to take this trip to see for yourself what he has done it's so amazing, thanks for sharing!
Wisdom like this must be preserved. It is too valuable to let slip away.
Incredible! There is so much knowledge in the previous generations♡
I noticed someone else asked this: what about pollination? I have wondered that about all greenhouses. We so want several when we finally start our homestead! Cool video!
Some people attach their beehive with an insulated tube, however, that would mean a lot of bees in the greenhouse. My personal thoughts are that if the greenhouse is warm enough for citrus and mangoes it should remain warm enough to have a reproductive butterfly population. Butterflies were the main pollinators in America before the European honeybee. Also, mangos are pollinated by house flies
@@BruceDylanFuller Thanks! Cool info!
I mean you could hand pollinate things if you need to? I don't actually know because I open the door and let bees in, but obviously this won't work in the snow!!
there's a lady from india I follow on you tube and she hand pollinate her plants
@@BruceDylanFuller butterflies! Never heard of it. Would love to see it work..
I've watched other videos about his greenhouses and looked at everything on his website. That is really cool that you got to visit in person! :)
I have been a Floridian all my life. I am an agronomist and found this episode fascinating. I made my first loaf of white bread thanks to you. There's no stopping me now!
Fantastic! The idea of having one attached to your house is incredible. I would have to have a small space set aside by the trees for a chair where I could relax on cold, snowy days and pretend that I was in the tropics!
A hammock at least don't deny yourself an occasional nap or two.
I watched a video about Russ’s green house several years ago, I am going to do one eventually. What a neat guy he is!
Oh that sounds great! Unfortunately our ground is soooo cold that it wouldn't work. We have areas of perma frost so a regular greenhouse is all we can use. This allows us to at least grow tomatoes & cucs up here in Whitehorse Yukon😊
AAAAAGH, I am so excited!! This is gold, thank you so much for documenting this adventure! Hope your freezer turns out better than you hoped.
Please please please do one of these. I so want to see the process!
We are planning on it- should be an adventure!
i first heard about this guy several years ago , saw his video, and i have to say he warms my heart! since then i have moved to the philippines from nevada ( for the time being ) and i hope one day to try this idea in reverse, cooling the tropical air and see if i can get strawberries and potatoes etc. here those crops are mostly grown in high elevation areas
It seems easier to cool than to heat.my problem is too much water, which makes such a greenhouse below ground level impossible.
wow. shallow water table. what area of the world are you in with such a water table@@Spark_Iskra_z_Polski
I grow lemons and they are so handy. We use them for marinades, drinks in summer, salads etc. Don’t dismiss how valuable this fruit is. Also I seem to have fruit all year round.
Lemon/lemon juice is like a superfood
Great video!
I recently built a 400 square foot in-ground hoophouse on my North Carolina homestead and just got my hands on variety of citrus trees: orange; lemon; lime of a couple varieties each. I even got a grapefruit tree.
This is amazing. I also went to his site and watched another video there. This is what should be going on everywhere in our country. Its just so exciting. And it shows how the elderly are still able to contribute. This man us so smart and able. Blessings and thanks for sharing.
What is his website address?
This is where I grew up! Funny how it is such a small world! I hope you had a chance to see the area.. Car Henge, Box Butte Reservoir, Fort Robinson.
Very cool!
We love Russ. We visited him a few years ago and got the kit. Only up and going for a couple of years but Meyer Lemons the size of my hand. Figs galore! Oranges and avocados hopefully in year or two. Grapes and blackberries growing. Lettuce grows great. Planting tomatoes this week. Love it.
Oh my….that sounds wonderful. Congratulations on your success.
Oh…and I posted earlier that there are other techniques that I’ve heard help with yield. One is playing music, the other is using a small electrical current to increase yields.
The electric current was mention by a guest on the Sean Ryan show. The guest was former military….I think it is the guy that transitioned to a woman, then transitioned back. (Not 100 percent sure…but he was an interesting guest-invented other stuff, too.)
The other about using music to increase yields is in a YT post somewhere.
I remember the very first video of this gentleman; happy to see he’s doing well and more people are learning from his work. Very nice video, bravo
Man has beautiful soul, he is wonderful human being, unfortunately we don't have too many like him on this planet.
The air that you breathe is good for the plants and vice-versa. Which is a good idea to circulate from the house to the green house a little every now and then.
not all lessons are learned in a typical home school setting...they are still being schooled, just in an adventurous cool way!! rock on 🤙
my friend @Hardnack Farms just build a geo thermal greenhouse, I did not know they had been around that long, this older man's garden is awesome, might be encouraging for my friend to see
Russ is a Legend!
Born and raised in Nebraska, but I had never heard that this was up in Alliance. What a fun day trip! Hope you got to visit Car Henge too.
I would like to thank the gentleman who shared his knowledge. What a gem .❤
Very cool! Thanks for taking us along!
That is so amazing!!! Thanks for taking us along :)
Um is voice is so soothing!! That was awesome I can’t wait to see what your spin will be on this! 💗
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing your visit!
God Bless This Precious Man 🙏❤️🙏
Thank You for sharing!. God Bless You and Your family as well !
❤️🙏❤️
Thats awesome, thank you for the adventure
I knew about and saw a person's house heated about the year 1996 using the same concept he didn't have a heating bill for 24 years fog came over so he had to use standard heating in his vaulted ceiling house over 3,000 ft. Nobody understands what I'm talking about but this video answers all questions it is wonderful that this young man has done this for so many years
Love that you went to see him!
Thanks for posting this Jill, it was fascinating! And thanks Mr. Finch!
This is an amazing idea. I remember seeing a video about him years ago. Nice to see him still going strong.
I saw something a few years ago about him and his crops, it's a fading memory now but was super interesting. How cool that you got to meet him and learn from him.
Please ask this old gentleman to write a book detailing his work with diagrams also. A lifetimes worth of knowledge 🙏🏻❤️
I love that i clicked on this video because I thought something like this underground greenhouses a while ago and forgot to look into it, but have always had it in my mind. Now it makes sense to do these for tropical fruits in not so tropical places. And I definitely love the idea of it being attached to the house, so you just walk barefoot into it!
What a treasure you found! What a wonderful man. So glad you got to spend the time with him.
This so awesome. He has been on a program we have here in Nebraska, called, “Pure Nebraska.” Thank you for sharing 😀
WOW! Very cool concept and what a great and educational road trip - the man is brilliant and seems so humble. Thank you so much for sharing. Have a beautiful day!
This is freaking awesome! Thank you so much for going out to meet him. Might work here in Vermont. He is my hero.
Fascinating Video ! Thanks for sharing & preserving this terrific scaled application of some basic technology !
Russ still looks great; got some lemon and berries when I went to visit him; 14 hours trip to Alliance, NE worth every drop of fuel to learn from this great man and pick up his concept. Will be building my own greenhouse this year base on his model.
Thank you and congratulations for this video with all the good questions and answers it offers. Our deep appreciation for the admirable and inspiring Russ Finch for his remarkable work and outstanding results!
What an amazing greenhouse technology & he had so much knowledge he was willing to share 🍋🍎🍇🍓🫐🥭🥝🍅🥑🍑🍌🍐🌶🥬🍆🫑🫒🥦🥕🥒🍒🍉🍊
I never tire of watching Russ videos. Pretty much have seen them all. So inspiring!
Thanks for this, very helpful questions asked of Russ, appreciate the diagram you provided of the excavation specifications for the greenhouse, also growing and planting tips. Most of these were not included in the other videos on the net on greenhouse in the snow,
What a wholesome group of people. Nice Video ☺️
Beautiful landscape and scenery on the drive. Thank you for preserving this valueable information. 🥰🥰
Your husband seems like a great man and home just seems right sometimes. I hope your next field trip is well planned and fruitful.
This is amazing there is women in Canada that grows bananas trees and is able to over winter them outdoors. It’s truly impressive
Very cool!
This is amazing!!!! I e watched this all already. Thank you for sharing! I had no idea this was even possible! I’m following you now and hope to see more . God bless you and your family!
I’m sitting here talking away to myself while watching this😂😂 when you said at the very end about wanting to walk out your house into the greenhouse barefoot I was like yes yes YES!! Do it girl!! I have to show this to my husband cause this is right up my alley! Thank you for sharing this information with us!🌻
OMG the BEST information for growing I’ve seen to date! My wife and I are going to visit Russ.
This makes me so happy! I looooove this. Thank you, Russ!! Hero extraordinaire 💛🙏🏻💋 and thanks for filming this and sharing. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
So cool that you got to go and visit!
Great video! So interesting. Thanks for taking us along.
We are designing our homestead now. Paid off the raw land so now it's time to build.
One thing on my list is a subterranean greenhouse. Not sure if it will work with our build location yet but I'm hoping to design the greenhouse to connect into the lower level of the house. I want to walk out into the greenhouse directly from the house. Plus the extra humidity can be used in the house. And I want certain foods that won't grow naturally in my area.
We have some geothermal in our area but haven't seen any greenhouses...and I'm a Master Gardener. Just not common here I guess.
If you figure out a house plan with this attached ... Let me know! We would like to build a homestead with an attached greenhouse soon too. I have a hard time imagining how it would look
Glad you got to come to Nebraska! He really has sparked a lot of creative thinking. I know he has me hooked
An attached greenhouse to a home
Could make winters a lot more enjoyable
Maybe with an area to sit back in and relax and enjoy having meals in
It was great to hear from him thanks for sharing
Y’all are so awesome! God bless you and all you do!
YES!!!! I've known about this guy for ages! Touring his geothermal greenhouses is on my bucket list!
Jill, as usual, your quality of postings is top notch. I appreciate you more than you know. Thank you from deep in my heart. You help me see that I can do this. Blessings to you and the family. Your hard work is noticed, my friend. I love your thoughts and ideas at the end on your ride home.
Imagine knowing what this man knows right now. Someone be sure to get his stories. Wealth of knowledge!!
Kudos to you to connect with Russ and his geothermal greenhouses. We recently watched his video and we're now planning to create a geothermal treehouse and greenhouse complex on the west coast using much of Russ' techniques. I'm looking forward to seeing your barefoot-accessible greenhouse! Thanks for sharing.
After seeing about this dude, I had this idea a short bit ago to make a greenhouse like this but dig down more like fifteen feet below ground level with maybe a brick or cement terrace around the edge to help keep the walls from pushing in, the center would be deep enough to grow a serious sized tree if the roof goes up to ten feet above the ground level. I imagine it would barely need to bring in more heat (though a geothermal system would be needed in colder places and maybe for extra touchy plants) being set in the ground so deep already (in my own zone 7b things never freeze below 18 inches of soil) and this would be having most of the planted area heated above freezing if insulated well in similar areas. I'm thinking about the same length as his one in this video, but I think twice the width and even without the extra depth would probably feel really nice to just look at and walk through.
I’m zone 7b too!!
@@Grayson4life Agriculture is destroying the planet. It is very frustrating how much miss information there is on this topic. Grazing can actually sequester far more carbon than forests at a much, much faster rate. If we grazed animals on a large enough scale, we could actually mitigate all human emissions. Growing plants can not do this. Plant agriculture uses massive amounts of fossil fuels and unlike grazing cattle, it doesn't mitigate its own emissions. The soil microbiome is killed with chemicals and that dead soil is lost rapidly, causing complete land infertility and desertification. Grazing animals is the fastest way to replenish these lands, bring the microbes back, give nutrients back, rehydrate, break up impaction, and build soil faster than any other process. It would take nature decades to build the amount of soil made in a couple of yrs of Grazing.
This is awesome! What a treasure you found.