Tag Archive: build your own

Green Building: Sustainable Prefab Home

Tammy Clayton

Innovations in green building Have presented us with several interesting ways of owning a sustainable home over the past few years, but now these qualities are available in a prefab earth-shelter package. Unlike traditional houses, they blend in with the surrounding landscape, and harness the passive heating and cooling properties of the Earth. Better than…

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Build An Urban Garden Room

A winner of the 2016 Chart Art Fair Architecture competition, the urban garden room display caught a lot of attention late last summer. The structure didn’t attract just gardeners and local food fans. Fair attendees with diverse interests loved the experience of relaxing in a cocoon of live plants. The aromas of herbs and bright colored…
February 25, 2017
Callie

Cool DIY Indoor Vertical Garden

The middle of winter is the best time for an indoor garden project. This photo inspired an excellent DIY indoor vertical garden idea. It has an irrigation system, and well, how hard would it be to copy that?! Visions of repurposed pallet wood and barn wood danced through my head… First, we need a liner for…
January 6, 2017
Tammy Clayton

DIY Fogponics

Futuristic plots never cease to grab our attention. Man is all agog over new thrills, cool gadgets, and the next big thing. In the world of indoor gardening, fogponics is the next generation in soilless growing. This advancement of aeroponic principles is based on NASA innovations for the space program. Once again, overcoming the challenges of grow food in among…
January 18, 2016
Tammy Clayton