Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[mtncats@planetcomm.net]

Hi Nancy,

No earthship- much too labor intensive.  Two local ones, not very successful. 
 But anything can be screwed up.

Not germane to this list, but we've been enjoying passive annual heat storage 
(PAHS) for the past 12 yrs.  Take a peek at what a guy promoting annual heat 
storage systems put up about us:  
http://paccs.fugadeideas.org/tom/index.shtml  I now have a better 
understanding of how our place works.  A third one is started.

BTW, statements about underground spaces always being more humid than above 
grade are simplistic, and wrong.  Depends on the design.

Write me privately if you want some other ideas/examples along the lines of 
earthships, but much less labor.  I know a few folk who've done some 
interesting projects.

Tom (in central Va)


On 7/22/06 at 8:32 AM Nancy Babbitt <nbabbitt2003@adelphia.net> wrote:

>Tom,
>
>do you live in an earthship?  It's our dream, to build an earthship,
>of a sort.
>
>nancy