Single Mom Builds an Elegant Off-Grid Home

Welcome! I'll give you a complete tour of the off-grid, self-sustaining home that I designed and built. Together with my two young sons, a talented carpenter, and his wife, we created a home in the mountains of Colorado to demonstrate that living off-grid doesn't mean living without modern conveniences.

We built a home that incorporates:
🌻 Water harvesting,
🌻 Uses passive solar design to heat and cool our house for free - with the sun,
🌻 Heats our water with the sun,
🌻 Generates clean, regenerative power with a small PV solar array,
🌻 Recycles our greywater to grow an indoor jungle,
🌻 And has a composting toilet so that we recycle our waste back into the earth.

TIME CODES
00:00 - Introduction
01:09 - Benefits of an off-grid home
02:18 - Why I built an off-grid, sustainable home
04:23 - How we built an off-grid, sustainable home
05:53 - Why we built our house out of tires
06:42 - How I designed a Passive Solar home
07:38 - Building a home using recycled materials
08:02 - Building a water catchment system
08:41 - Our Indoor Greywater planter
09:17 - greywater system and composting toilet
10:02 - raising kids in an off-grid home
10:48 - modern convinces in an off-grid home
11:13 - tour of our off-grid home
13:42 - our composting toilet
15:53 - I believe anyone who wants to can build a sustainable home

At Sustainable Home Resource, we'll guide you step-by-step through creating a home you'll love, without the typical frustration, overwhelm, and costly mistakes.

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