Nice tiny house. I think you'll find that your fruit trees won't produce though because you don't have enough of each type to pollinate them. Your apple, for instance not only needs another tree to make fruit, but also (if it's a red variety, like Macintosh) needs a yellow tree, like a Golden Delicious in order for both to become pollinated. Red trees won't pollinate red trees and yellow won't pollinate yellow trees, so you need to have at least two apple trees, one of each variety or no apples. My suggestion is that you contact the Arizona State Department of Agriculture and make use of the Agricultural Extension Service and make friends with an extension agent. This person can help you to iron out the wrinkles in your gardening and arboreal projects. The best part about using the extension service is that their services are already paid for by the tax payers in your state and there won't be any additional charge at the time of your consultation, so it'll seem like it's free. These people are ordenairily very astute and often hold advanced degrees and, as such are experts in what they do. What a deal, huh? They can also help you with soil analysis, calculating the amount of fertilizer you need to put out for the type of plants you intend to grow, pest control and much more. It seems that most non-farmers and hippie types (and anyone who had "Carrots Grow From Carrot Seeds" read to them as a child) have this notion that if you throw a few seeds down in the dirt it will result in prize winning vegetables appearing magically and that's just not the case. Without providing the proper PH and correct soil type you may get a result, but it may not be what you're looking for. If you give them what they need you'll get greater yield and bigger, better veggis and fruit. Considering the size of your plot and the scarcity of water where you are and all the trouble you go through to gather it, I'd think that would be paramount. Not that I, myself am an expert, but my family has farmed for six generations in the piedmont of North Carolina and those things I mentioned are things we've considered in order to grow in the volume that is required to support us. It's a tricky business sometimes. Good luck.
Dude.... for 35 large, you could buy a good used travel trailer, build a pole shed for over it (shade & rain collection), and do all that other stuff, with money left over.....
Watch some of their more recent videos. They're both tired of the tiny house and are currently building a far larger home (using insulated concrete forms). While the traditional house they're building will not use city water (they had a HUGE tank installed), it will be using grid power (with plans to install a grid-tied solar system down the road).
@@michrech That's because they didn't do enough planning when it came to the size of the actual house itself. 330 sq feet for 2 people may seem fun and cozy at first but eventually they are going to get tired of being in each others way and not having some room to breathe, year one is cool but by year 2 or 3 your just sick of being around each either. It's too small long term when it comes to your mental health. My Financee' and I just bought 6 acres in the Colorado River in Northwestern Arizona and are building a 18x25 (450 sq ft) tiny house out of a prefab Garage. 450 sq ft is still small for 2 people but we have figured out ways to get around being on top of each other all the time. Were building an actual bedroom with actual walls and a door instead of a sleeping loft so when one of us want some "Me time" we can go taker a bubble bath or go into the bedroom and watch some t.v. or walk down to the river and wet a line or just stare at the river. As a couple you have to have some time away by yourself for your mental health and most tiny houses don't allow that because even going up into the sleeping loft to be by yourself your STILL in the same room and the bathroom is so small you can't go in there either.
They spent a lot of money on what they have and the cost is like $200,000 on the land and tiny house and the solar energy and storage and water storage and who really has that kind of money to go start a life in the desert.I used to watch their videos when their youtube channel was called (life in a box).
This is one of the most awesome tiny house homesteads you are going to see anywhere. I love the way they have designed & built to fit into the real world conditions of a desert. Compared to the typical ginormous water & energy guzzling house that other Americans seem to prefer, this tiny house homestead is light years more efficient, less impactful and more sustainable. My wife & I want to do something like this on our land in a mountain forest in Virginia, so I hope we can learn some creative engineering ideas from watching Derrick & Hannah's well-made videos. Very inspiring!
This amazes me, I just recently took my first trip to California and flying over the desert seeing people living out there peaked my interests. So cool to see videos about this!
Love the peace and serenity they have there. It's been hard work so anyone who wants what they have, it's all documented. They have done a great job to make their dreams work. Thanks for bringing us this video.
I've been following both of them for years and it helped inspire me to travel off grid in a 20 ft van! I love their house and love seeing them build their other home on the same property.
i love arizona because of its freedom and lack of zoning restrictions! plentyful views and can truly live off grid, self sufficient and debt free~ i loev arizona!!! i just bought land in mohave county and cant wait to do the same thing
Oh yes indeed. Derek how's his stuff. I watched every video he has made on his Handyman channel. He does a great job on them explaining as he goes. I remember when he got his drone. It was when he was building the tiny home in there friends back yard. It made his videos out of this world. He did a great job on editing his videos. I don't know how he did all 3 jobs. Building the tiny, filming, & editing everyday for about a 7 month period. He did a wonderful job. Great video Chris on Derek & HCH. Thanks Chris
Fantastic job! I give you an A+. Proud of you kids! Please be really watchful of your fur babies. That's day and night. Hawks and many other wild critters,snakes.....
fantastic video! Derrick and Hannah are awesome in their talents and abilities. However...in the beginning when he says, "it's easy..." The biggest lesson to learn from this young couple is they have been purposeful, thoughtful and studious from the beginning of their journey to this point in time. They are industrious, hard-working people, quicker to do the job than to "write the check". They recognize what they are able to do - and do it; and then they know exactly what they cannot do - i.e. drywall and such - and the leave that to those who do it well. I have watched their channel from the beginning, and have been amazed at the purposefulness and intensity to achieve their goals. Anyone - everyone! - can learn from this young couple, and the best thing we can learn from them is...if you really want to and you're willing to work, you CAN achieve your dreams. Thank you for this video!
If a video's purpose is to inform then it should always be done without distracting back round music or sound effects. People come to these sites to learn and be informed, not to be distracted by annoying music or sound effects, It simply isn't necessary.
I watched the whole series of this while Derek was building the house and all the add-ons on the property. Was so interesting. He is so smart and even more capable. They have a great philosophy and were easy to watch.
40 acres is huge. Awesome place to live and have freedom to do whatever you want and create. Appreciate all of your home, solar, water recycling, and creative enhancements.
LOVE seeing a familiar couple. Their home and outside grounds are just AMAZING. Derrick is an old genius in a young body. Absolutely brilliant and motivated he is! Bravo!
Well done! Have you considered using Wye strainers or basket strainers on the intake lines for your water tanks?They have flush valves & the mesh can be removed & cleaned. Your rain catching system probably will get a lot of sand/dirt during the monsoon season. To eliminate dirt or sludge from developing in your tanks the strainers work really well. Just a thought
If you add 6 wooden beams to support your water catchment roof that's on the floor, you have extra space to do whatever you want...green house, place to park you car, tools out of sun etc. Great idea, just a waste of space. You are also losing the function of gravity, gravity (higher the water source) can help you send the water with out the use of electronic pumps. However, your setup overall is amazing, love what you doing! Living life the way we should.
The people who live in the USA are so lucky to have the diversity of weather in there country that is probably why it's still the land of the people and freedom and rights
This is so similar to what i am trying to do. almost exact also thought it was so funny they said 40 acres and that's the exact amount of land i want t buy.
Good. I'm tired of people saying they live off the grid but go to the store!! You've shown more off grid than some of these. Other Utube video's I seen. Thank you!!
Peter Mulroe, You can add a small amount of bleach or chlorine to the water to prevent algae from growing. Also if you get tanks in dark colors it prevents algae growth.
Remarkable how many ‘off-grid’ people are constantly uploading videos to UA-cam! Off-Grid has gotten so chic, even the wildlife are rolling their eyes.
When he said 35,000 I nearly fell over....I got an 1100 sq ft steel building that was delivered and installed for 10,000 we completely did the inside and turned it into a house ....he spent 3x as us and has way less sq ft than we do ....way to go dude
This young guy is brilliant! I yearn to live in such a wide open space self reliant. This video was way too short Chris, but great camera work. I'm catching all of your creative little nuances 👍🏽😃
NoProGoPronto Just too short. Derrick is brilliant and has so much to share! However, maybe Derrick wanted it short so that folks will troll all his information videos especially if they are monetized.
it takes a lot of getting used to.its a severe head change,ive been doing it for a few years and I have a ranch and its hard.The high desert its a tough enviroment,beautiful but its unforgiving.
Wonderful. You can use soap nuts for washing cloths & used water is totally chemical free. It is fit for watering plants/vegetables. Soap nut solution(boiled in water) can be used for washing kitchen vessels or as shampoo for hair. In fact, it can be used even for bathrooms & toilets cleaning too!! Soap nuts shud be available in Amazon.
Wonderful build. Save on your soap bill by using lye soap. Formula: All wood burned put ash in a bucket (Pot ash plus water and grease) Use grease from fat like bacon Mix with water The ash adds nutrients and nitrate back to your plants Please look up some more resources to make sure not leaving anything out.
I love coming across videos by people who are intelligent, environmentally responsible, interesting, nice, and doing things the way I want to do them - simply, cleanly, minimally. 👍🏻😉 Subscribed!! Best, Adam
Are you guys gonna have a community eventually???? Either way you guys are awesome!!! So smart and so peaceful.... it’s people like you that actually change the world... much love.. would love to visit and get ideas
Love the land, garden, and the tiny home. I just think that bedroom are not meant to crawl around in. I would have built a bedroom that I could actually stand in but that's just me. Nice home though. 😊
Great video. Another idea would have been to have a truss roof over the home with ample space for parking vehicles underneath. It could serve as not only solar area but also water run off too. There's a home in Morongo Valley with a truss shade structure over the home which keeps it cooler in the summer.
a well probably would be a good idea down the road to augment your water supply you can run the pump off the inverter,which youd only have to run just long enough to top off your cisterns,just a thought,and maybe a carport to protect your rides from the sun and hail..hey dude i live out in the desert too.
I am a 3rd generation Arizonan -- tip: treat ANYTHING that is wood--your siding will need to be treated at least once a year if not twice and don't treat the wood if it has rained in in 10 to 14 weeks after the rain . Termites: treat yearly. Keep your dog safe--coyotes see him as food NOT as a dog. Your cat-- it will die if stung by scorpions. Your light skinned: use sun screen.
It would need a substantial structure to keep it from flying away in a storm... he actually just tied it to cinder blocks and built up a berm around it to keep the wind from getting under it. Building it higher would have more than doubled the cost and he was working by himself so it would have been a lot harder.
I also noticed VERY VERY THIN layer of mulch in your garden. Here in N TX where we can get 35" rain a year I still keep all 8 of our 25x50 ft beds covered in at least 1 1/2 to 2 FEET of mulch...hay, straw, or drive around town & if anyone still has a lawn & bags clippings, or go to a local golf course if they bag the grass off the greens & bring it home. If they r still green you MUST let them turn brown before u put them in beds or they will burn plants/trees. Go to any ranches or farms nearby, ask if u can clean up around wherever they have been feeding hay. You'll get benefit of pre-'fertilized' material as well that u can put directly around trees/plants. You can really use anything, even weeds, because if mulch is thick enough the weeds can't grow thru, or if they do they pull out like a dream.
This is true blue off grid living.. You're not only reducing your carbon footprint, but also 'infusing' more life in a desert landscape! This is what the focus should be for anybody aspiring to live off grid.. Go transform a unusable space into a usable one.. Rather than moving in green pastures and clearing off things to claim off grid living.. All the best y'all!
You may be helped by Back to Eden gardening making use of wood chips as mulch which can benefit your garden greatly and decrease your need to water your plants while feeding the soil nutrients that will improve year after year rather than your soil being depleted and in need of fertilizer.
Mr. Piharrdos has a shed in the desert and he lives in it and he's drunk most of the time . We all get together and play cards once a week . He does have some survival plants in his xeroscape setup and vegetable garden too. It's funny he kinda wings it as he drinks Budlight and I helped him with a 12 volt solar system so we can watch our sports games and get drunk too. We all pitched in and got a great rain water harvesting system installed. Next week we're going to have a BBQ and get drunk again as usual.
You may be lacking essential minerals in your drinking water which in later years may cause health problems. One simple scource is , you could use Alum in processing all your water. Not only will the water be clean but the salts in the alum may be beneficial. All the best.
As long as you have a lot of money, this works with discipline. Not for the unhealthy. We can attest to it. Very, very expressive. Nice to see folks with mass amounts of money living like this though. Not trashy. Thanks for that.
One thing, I would have put the rain Harvesting roof a higher off the ground for TWO reasons. One to keep the Dirt off and out of your containment tanks and two, to keep Rattlers out of your area. They LOVE things like this and when the sun goes down, they are out hunting..as in YOUR YARD. Also, it would have made a great place to park your vehicles and also for more Storage or over an outside Shed to help keep it a little cooler. Just saying.
Why don’t you see the solar panels used as a patio awning or a shed roof very often? The roof on the ground to catch water could be a rather large building. Carport or shade cover for mini home
Nice build . The desert is a great place for the solar system cause of all the sun u get . Collecting the rain water is a great idea. But I don think I could deal with the heat .
Great information! I would suggest doing it without the music, it is bothersome to some of us, to the point of stop watching it, and the rest of the people most probably will not mind. Thank you and best wishes!
Very inspiring! I need to figure out how to get back to AZ, there is something about it , I maybe had to move away to appreciate what it is , now all I can think about is get me back home!!! the dry heat is great as long as you are blessed enough to have a.c. Some live just fine with a swamp cooler and only suffer during monsoons
I love Derrick and Hannah!!❤ I want to say they have both grown since my first introduction to them when the lived in the apartment. Great couple. How do find used lithium batteries from Smart cars?
I was loving them initially and actually unsubscribed after the second or third name change. I felt like they lost touch with their audience and started being rather unrealistic. Like Pippi they have some good content but she's another one that just sorta lost touch.
My goal is to live off the grid in my skoolie conversion. Do you think you could do this off the grid type of lifestyle?
Looks like paradise to me.
I would leave New York City in a hot minute for a place like that 😃
Wish I could, the cost stops me dead in my tracks. However your whole set-up is inspiring. My plans are less expansive, but along the same idea.
we are crushing the off grid lifestyle with no solar =)
I am and I do for the past 30 years. Tho I did find a tiny house way to small on a working homestead.
Nice tiny house. I think you'll find that your fruit trees won't produce though because you don't have enough of each type to pollinate them. Your apple, for instance not only needs another tree to make fruit, but also (if it's a red variety, like Macintosh) needs a yellow tree, like a Golden Delicious in order for both to become pollinated. Red trees won't pollinate red trees and yellow won't pollinate yellow trees, so you need to have at least two apple trees, one of each variety or no apples. My suggestion is that you contact the Arizona State Department of Agriculture and make use of the Agricultural Extension Service and make friends with an extension agent. This person can help you to iron out the wrinkles in your gardening and arboreal projects. The best part about using the extension service is that their services are already paid for by the tax payers in your state and there won't be any additional charge at the time of your consultation, so it'll seem like it's free. These people are ordenairily very astute and often hold advanced degrees and, as such are experts in what they do. What a deal, huh? They can also help you with soil analysis, calculating the amount of fertilizer you need to put out for the type of plants you intend to grow, pest control and much more. It seems that most non-farmers and hippie types (and anyone who had "Carrots Grow From Carrot Seeds" read to them as a child) have this notion that if you throw a few seeds down in the dirt it will result in prize winning vegetables appearing magically and that's just not the case. Without providing the proper PH and correct soil type you may get a result, but it may not be what you're looking for. If you give them what they need you'll get greater yield and bigger, better veggis and fruit. Considering the size of your plot and the scarcity of water where you are and all the trouble you go through to gather it, I'd think that would be paramount. Not that I, myself am an expert, but my family has farmed for six generations in the piedmont of North Carolina and those things I mentioned are things we've considered in order to grow in the volume that is required to support us. It's a tricky business sometimes. Good luck.
Great informational comment. Thank you
Dude....
for 35 large, you could buy a good used travel trailer, build a pole shed for over it (shade & rain collection), and do all that other stuff, with money left over.....
What makes a tiny house amazing to me is the land you have around it, and you guys nailed it. I've always wanted to live off grid desert or forest.
They are proof that a well thought out set up can bring peace and comfort! nice vid!!
Watch some of their more recent videos. They're both tired of the tiny house and are currently building a far larger home (using insulated concrete forms). While the traditional house they're building will not use city water (they had a HUGE tank installed), it will be using grid power (with plans to install a grid-tied solar system down the road).
@@michrech That's because they didn't do enough planning when it came to the size of the actual house itself. 330 sq feet for 2 people may seem fun and cozy at first but eventually they are going to get tired of being in each others way and not having some room to breathe, year one is cool but by year 2 or 3 your just sick of being around each either. It's too small long term when it comes to your mental health. My Financee' and I just bought 6 acres in the Colorado River in Northwestern Arizona and are building a 18x25 (450 sq ft) tiny house out of a prefab Garage. 450 sq ft is still small for 2 people but we have figured out ways to get around being on top of each other all the time. Were building an actual bedroom with actual walls and a door instead of a sleeping loft so when one of us want some "Me time" we can go taker a bubble bath or go into the bedroom and watch some t.v. or walk down to the river and wet a line or just stare at the river. As a couple you have to have some time away by yourself for your mental health and most tiny houses don't allow that because even going up into the sleeping loft to be by yourself your STILL in the same room and the bathroom is so small you can't go in there either.
They spent a lot of money on what they have and the cost is like $200,000 on the land and tiny house and the solar energy and storage and water storage and who really has that kind of money to go start a life in the desert.I used to watch their videos when their youtube channel was called (life in a box).
This is one of the most awesome tiny house homesteads you are going to see anywhere. I love the way they have designed & built to fit into the real world conditions of a desert. Compared to the typical ginormous water & energy guzzling house that other Americans seem to prefer, this tiny house homestead is light years more efficient, less impactful and more sustainable. My wife & I want to do something like this on our land in a mountain forest in Virginia, so I hope we can learn some creative engineering ideas from watching Derrick & Hannah's well-made videos. Very inspiring!
This amazes me, I just recently took my first trip to California and flying over the desert seeing people living out there peaked my interests. So cool to see videos about this!
Love the peace and serenity they have there. It's been hard work so anyone who wants what they have, it's all documented. They have done a great job to make their dreams work. Thanks for bringing us this video.
I've been following both of them for years and it helped inspire me to travel off grid in a 20 ft van! I love their house and love seeing them build their other home on the same property.
i love arizona because of its freedom and lack of zoning restrictions! plentyful views and can truly live off grid, self sufficient and debt free~ i loev arizona!!! i just bought land in mohave county and cant wait to do the same thing
Oh yes indeed. Derek how's his stuff. I watched every video he has made on his Handyman channel. He does a great job on them explaining as he goes. I remember when he got his drone. It was when he was building the tiny home in there friends back yard. It made his videos out of this world. He did a great job on editing his videos. I don't know how he did all 3 jobs. Building the tiny, filming, & editing everyday for about a 7 month period. He did a wonderful job.
Great video Chris on Derek & HCH.
Thanks Chris
Fantastic job! I give you an A+. Proud of you kids! Please be really watchful of your fur babies. That's day and night. Hawks and many other wild critters,snakes.....
These guys are my peeps. I follow them all the time. I learn so much from them. They are a true blessing on UA-cam!!!!
fantastic video! Derrick and Hannah are awesome in their talents and abilities. However...in the beginning when he says, "it's easy..." The biggest lesson to learn from this young couple is they have been purposeful, thoughtful and studious from the beginning of their journey to this point in time. They are industrious, hard-working people, quicker to do the job than to "write the check". They recognize what they are able to do - and do it; and then they know exactly what they cannot do - i.e. drywall and such - and the leave that to those who do it well. I have watched their channel from the beginning, and have been amazed at the purposefulness and intensity to achieve their goals. Anyone - everyone! - can learn from this young couple, and the best thing we can learn from them is...if you really want to and you're willing to work, you CAN achieve your dreams. Thank you for this video!
If a video's purpose is to inform then it should always be done without distracting back round music or sound effects. People come to these sites to learn and be informed, not to be distracted by annoying music or sound effects, It simply isn't necessary.
This is HIS video...that's the problem with the world everyone has to put their two cents in.
Pollination rates are higher with two cherry trees. Awsome home and area! love all the solar
I watched the whole series of this while Derek was building the house and all the add-ons on the property. Was so interesting. He is so smart and even more capable. They have a great philosophy and were easy to watch.
They have a great setup with all their different off grid systems. You can tell they put a lot of thought into their build.
That is the nicest most organised off grid place in the desert ever. Every other one I’ve seen looks like a junkyard compared to this.
40 acres is huge. Awesome place to live and have freedom to do whatever you want and create. Appreciate all of your home, solar, water recycling, and creative enhancements.
LOVE seeing a familiar couple. Their home and outside grounds are just AMAZING. Derrick is an old genius in a young body. Absolutely brilliant and motivated he is! Bravo!
Well done! Have you considered using Wye strainers or basket strainers on the intake lines for your water tanks?They have flush valves & the mesh can be removed & cleaned. Your rain catching system probably will get a lot of sand/dirt during the monsoon season. To eliminate dirt or sludge from developing in your tanks the strainers work really well. Just a thought
We’re Loving getting ready to go off grid with our children and shipping containers
Mold in the desert!!! Never. Ever. Cool property. Well done video. Thank you for sharing!
Tons of dust though.
Oh we hear the Canadian accent in 'out', 'about', 'house' etc. Nice!
Was looking for this comment. Definitely not a Tucson native.
I remember reading that High Carb Hannah was from Minnesota. Not sure where her husband or boyfriend is from.
I was going to say Minnesota after hearing “about”
If you add 6 wooden beams to support your water catchment roof that's on the floor, you have extra space to do whatever you want...green house, place to park you car, tools out of sun etc. Great idea, just a waste of space. You are also losing the function of gravity, gravity (higher the water source) can help you send the water with out the use of electronic pumps. However, your setup overall is amazing, love what you doing! Living life the way we should.
Maybe more than 6 beams
The people who live in the USA are so lucky to have the diversity of weather in there country that is probably why it's still the land of the people and freedom and rights
I love all the systems on property. The placement is marvelous in the same way a sim-city or engineering concept is... Great work!
This is so similar to what i am trying to do. almost exact also thought it was so funny they said 40 acres and that's the exact amount of land i want t buy.
Good. I'm tired of people saying they live off the grid but go to the store!!
You've shown more off grid than some of these. Other Utube video's I seen.
Thank you!!
I'm sure they go to the store plenty. Their garden is quite small so far.
I love the rain water system bud and your rain roof , super , one of a kind for dam sure , Iv been watching you from day 1
I've always wondered how you store that water for extended times and not have it get moldy / crappy etc. HOW DOES IT STAY POTABLE??
bud ..lol
Peter Mulroe, You can add a small amount of bleach or chlorine to the water to prevent algae from growing. Also if you get tanks in dark colors it prevents algae growth.
I followed the build as it happened, it was a great series of vids and these two are great to watch.
Hi from canada. We follow several utubers who bought IN AZ. BUT nobody who has a tiny home. Cool. Now I'll go back to see your house build. Way to go.
Remarkable how many ‘off-grid’ people are constantly uploading videos to UA-cam!
Off-Grid has gotten so chic, even the wildlife are rolling their eyes.
lol! I get what you're saying. But, some of us look to these types of videos to try to learn and get started.. ya know?
I smell jealousy
You are just jealous because you can't have sex outdoors.
What a fantastic set up! So well planned and executed! I really liked the Tesla batteries from the car idea. Good job!
This is my favorite tiny house/land/water/energy resource. He's awesome.
and good peeps
They have an interesting channel. They are very generous about teaching others through their videos.
Simply living should be paramount, in a free society. I will push for that everywhere. I enjoyed the tour. Enjoy your tiny house
When he said 35,000 I nearly fell over....I got an 1100 sq ft steel building that was delivered and installed for 10,000 we completely did the inside and turned it into a house ....he spent 3x as us and has way less sq ft than we do ....way to go dude
This young guy is brilliant! I yearn to live in such a wide open space self reliant.
This video was way too short Chris, but great camera work. I'm catching all of your creative little nuances 👍🏽😃
NoProGoPronto Just too short. Derrick is brilliant and has so much to share! However, maybe Derrick wanted it short so that folks will troll all his information videos especially if they are monetized.
it takes a lot of getting used to.its a severe head change,ive been doing it for a few years and I have a ranch and its hard.The high desert its a tough enviroment,beautiful but its unforgiving.
Handeeman is a UA-camr. He has a bunch of videos on this build and his ICF built house.
The "Catchment Roof" is Genius
Wonderful. You can use soap nuts for washing cloths & used water is totally chemical free. It is fit for watering plants/vegetables. Soap nut solution(boiled in water) can be used for washing kitchen vessels or as shampoo for hair. In fact, it can be used even for bathrooms & toilets cleaning too!! Soap nuts shud be available in Amazon.
Wonderful build.
Save on your soap bill by using lye soap.
Formula:
All wood burned put ash in a bucket
(Pot ash plus water and grease)
Use grease from fat like bacon
Mix with water
The ash adds nutrients and nitrate back to your plants
Please look up some more resources to make sure not leaving anything out.
That's cool! Not every girl would agree to live that type of lifestyle. You guys are awesome!
great planning.....go for you .... wish you decades of success and peace.
They've thought of everything. Awesome!!!
Tamara Weber except explosive diarrhea. I wanna know how those Barbie toilets handle that.
Kudos to the both of you. Enjoy watching and seeing you special place. Thanks for sharing.
I love coming across videos by people who are intelligent, environmentally responsible, interesting, nice, and doing things the way I want to do them - simply, cleanly, minimally. 👍🏻😉 Subscribed!! Best, Adam
Awesome video man! I love all that you have achived on your homestead. Its just amazing. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden
Stupendous stuff guys!. You have done just great. & Say hi to the dog and the two cats. Thanks for the share.
Are you guys gonna have a community eventually???? Either way you guys are awesome!!! So smart and so peaceful.... it’s people like you that actually change the world... much love.. would love to visit and get ideas
LOVE your catchment / rainwater system. VERY clever
Love the land, garden, and the tiny home. I just think that bedroom are not meant to crawl around in. I would have built a bedroom that I could actually stand in but that's just me. Nice home though. 😊
great job on your tiny house I live offgrid in Puna Hawaii for the past 12 years..solar and cathement system ..
That is such an impressive layout across both indoor and outdoor space.
Great video. Another idea would have been to have a truss roof over the home with ample space for parking vehicles underneath. It could serve as not only solar area but also water run off too. There's a home in Morongo Valley with a truss shade structure over the home which keeps it cooler in the summer.
Beautiful ! Enjoy every moment living your dreams.
A very inspirational video. This helping my case with my fiancee whom I'm in the process of convincing that desert living is peaceful
and for the senior off grid gang ,depends now sells composting adult undergarments
This was a very excellent very high grade informative video,
I'm quite impressed, congrats.
Wow, that Canadian accent is strong! hope you are enjoying your home here in Arizona.
Good on them . What a cool couple .
My guy repping that ETHCS gear, Incredible homestead!:D
4:57
“The problem is that gardening, requires water”
*squats down with a bone cracking noise* :,)
a well probably would be a good idea down the road to augment your water supply you can run the pump off the inverter,which youd only have to run just long enough to top off your cisterns,just a thought,and maybe a carport to protect your rides from the sun and hail..hey dude i live out in the desert too.
Excellent short presentation. Terrible background music for such a presentation, though.
Hard to have a happy positive feeling while watching when the music is kinda creepy but otherwise, a great video!
@@happycomfort3026 No kidding, the dude doesn't have an ear for the right track.
Huge fan of *zero* background music when trying to hear someone speak. Hehe Serene desert 🏜 living!
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There is no reason to add music to a video like this.
I am a 3rd generation Arizonan -- tip: treat ANYTHING that is wood--your siding will need to be treated at least once a year if not twice and don't treat the wood if it has rained in in 10 to 14 weeks after the rain . Termites: treat yearly. Keep your dog safe--coyotes see him as food NOT as a dog. Your cat-- it will die if stung by scorpions. Your light skinned: use sun screen.
Very nice! Outdoor space is so well done!
I own land in Welton Az and your video has encouraged me that living there off the grid, which is my dream is definitely doable!
I figured if you build a roof . you would make it high enough to get under it! To keep the sun off. A place in the shade can be nice.
It would need a substantial structure to keep it from flying away in a storm... he actually just tied it to cinder blocks and built up a berm around it to keep the wind from getting under it. Building it higher would have more than doubled the cost and he was working by himself so it would have been a lot harder.
I also noticed VERY VERY THIN layer of mulch in your garden. Here in N TX where we can get 35" rain a year I still keep all 8 of our 25x50 ft beds covered in at least 1 1/2 to 2 FEET of mulch...hay, straw, or drive around town & if anyone still has a lawn & bags clippings, or go to a local golf course if they bag the grass off the greens & bring it home. If they r still green you MUST let them turn brown before u put them in beds or they will burn plants/trees. Go to any ranches or farms nearby, ask if u can clean up around wherever they have been feeding hay. You'll get benefit of pre-'fertilized' material as well that u can put directly around trees/plants. You can really use anything, even weeds, because if mulch is thick enough the weeds can't grow thru, or if they do they pull out like a dream.
YOU have an amazing set up and off grid. One of the best so far that I have seen. Wow.
I love how immaculate their site is!
Such a beautiful home it is so amazing to see all that loveliness thanks for sharing 🤗
This is true blue off grid living.. You're not only reducing your carbon footprint, but also 'infusing' more life in a desert landscape! This is what the focus should be for anybody aspiring to live off grid.. Go transform a unusable space into a usable one.. Rather than moving in green pastures and clearing off things to claim off grid living.. All the best y'all!
Thanks for sharing your beautiful tiny home🌺🐞
The water collecting roof on the ground is an excellent idea!
cool the only thing I would have changed was the ground roof water catch ..... I wouldve had it elevated to have a shaded area
Wow! Just wow!
You may be helped by Back to Eden gardening making use of wood chips as mulch which can benefit your garden greatly and decrease your need to water your plants while feeding the soil nutrients that will improve year after year rather than your soil being depleted and in need of fertilizer.
Wow amazing
Mr. Piharrdos has a shed in the desert and he lives in it and he's drunk most of the time . We all get together and play cards once a week .
He does have some survival plants in his xeroscape setup and vegetable garden too. It's funny he kinda wings it as he drinks Budlight and I helped him with a 12 volt solar system so we can watch our sports games and get drunk too. We all pitched in and got a great rain water harvesting system installed. Next week we're going to have a BBQ and get drunk again as usual.
Thanks. fyi music is distracting.
You may be lacking essential minerals in your drinking water which in later years may cause health problems.
One simple scource is , you could use Alum in processing all your water. Not only will the water be clean but the salts in the alum may be beneficial.
All the best.
As long as you have a lot of money, this works with discipline. Not for the unhealthy. We can attest to it. Very, very expressive. Nice to see folks with mass amounts of money living like this though. Not trashy. Thanks for that.
One thing, I would have put the rain Harvesting roof a higher off the ground for TWO reasons. One to keep the Dirt off and out of your containment tanks and two, to keep Rattlers out of your area. They LOVE things like this and when the sun goes down, they are out hunting..as in YOUR YARD. Also, it would have made a great place to park your vehicles and also for more Storage or over an outside Shed to help keep it a little cooler. Just saying.
Been following them since the start. Love this couple.
As a fellow Tusconain who’s planning to homestead I got to say Right on you guys!
I am encouraged to live off the grid. Thanks.
Love these people! Been following their journey for years!
Why don’t you see the solar panels used as a patio awning or a shed roof very often?
The roof on the ground to catch water could be a rather large building. Carport or shade cover for mini home
Ive seen people do that on skoolies
Nice build . The desert is a great place for the solar system cause of all the sun u get . Collecting the rain water is a great idea. But I don think I could deal with the heat .
Awesome!! You even have Gaz's new cookbook on deck!!!!!
Great information!
I would suggest doing it without the music, it is bothersome to some of us, to the point of stop watching it, and the rest of the people most probably will not mind.
Thank you and best wishes!
Nice Set-up !! I'm living the same dream here in Golden Valley arizona
A tree known here in Brazil de Juazeiro would fit perfectly in this beautiful place
All these videos you all say “actually” a lot! Glad you like it.
I think it's a millennial generation thing. I noticed the same.
Very inspiring! I need to figure out how to get back to AZ, there is something about it , I maybe had to move away to appreciate what it is , now all I can think about is get me back home!!! the dry heat is great as long as you are blessed enough to have a.c. Some live just fine with a swamp cooler and only suffer during monsoons
I love Derrick and Hannah!!❤ I want to say they have both grown since my first introduction to them when the lived in the apartment. Great couple. How do find used lithium batteries from Smart cars?
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They have grown for sure
I was loving them initially and actually unsubscribed after the second or third name change. I felt like they lost touch with their audience and started being rather unrealistic. Like Pippi they have some good content but she's another one that just sorta lost touch.
vexedne: She has her own channel focused on Vegan cooking and health.
Rita, I'm super aware, I think everybody who's seen then is very, very aware of their dietary choices.